programing question!!

[metalguy]

im a VB user, not entirly expeiriancced, but i have been working with it for a little while, im a bit of an novice, my question is should i switch over to learning C++, or should i stick with VB?

[pjvdg]

It depends what you want to create....
The most important reason(I think) why ppl switch from vb to c++ is that c++ is faster than vb.

But that certainly doesn't mean vb is useless, a combination of both couldn't hurt, I for example, use a c++ 3d engine in VB so the speed isn't a problem to me.

I believe there is an engine called revolution3d that is fully written in visual basic(although I could be wrong)...
--> revolution3d.de
Just to let you see that vb does have some nifty powers

[DarkMoose]

VB seems easier than C++ so a lot of people start with it. And don't listen to any crap about VB teaching you bad habits - while you don't need semi-colons and case sensitivity like in C++, that's a poor excuse to stop using VB. Nothing like that has become so habitual to me that I never use semi-colons in C++ so don't worry about it.

[plenderj]

VB is a great programming language to introduce you to programming. It teaches you all the things that all HLLs have, eg. If...then...else statemends, Loops (for, do, while), Using variables, Using data structures etc.

Eg. If you want to learn how to design formula1 engines, you dont just right into it, you'd learn how to build normal car engines first