I was handed the install disks for Vb3, a computer, and was told, "have at it" ... fortunately I had prior programing experience (although not with VB ... or Visual anything for that matter.... only Pascal, C, Ada, COBOL and ASM...) Took me about 7 days to figure out the concpet behind event program (I spent three days going where the heck is the IF statement that says "If button Clicked, call this...." it was the hardest lession I've ever had in programming - turns out that FM was the answer).

Also in my favor, that's how I happen to learn best... since then, I've kept up by readin articles, playing with the language, not being content with what I have, always looking for the next advancement, how to leverage what I know into something new, etc.

-tg