A good house has a firm foundation
so the basic things in my opinion must be available in a kind of example book
The forum is to answer more specific questions
when a specific question comes up more often then it has to be added to the example book and so on, so the foundation becomes enlarged.

What are basic things?
e.g. how to open and close a file
how to read and write to a file
how to create and use a random access file
how to make an ouput filename containing date and time
how to use a timer
how to make a serial connection
how to catch errors
how to document a program
how to ...
and so on

The example book becomes an universal knowledge base for VB users