Am i really supposed to remember everything in VB

[Shellshocked]

I just wondered if I ever where to remember all the api calls in VB for example. I just want to learn about VB, I don`t have anything special I want to learn, but if i wanted to become really good, am i supposed to remember everything. Not looking in books and on the internett for things i can copy

[SteveCRM]

Just try and figure out what they mean and do. It is like a spoken language, you don't memorize sentences. You put them together by what makes sense. Once you figure out what they mean, you will see why they go in that order and how they work, and then you won't need to memorize it. You will know how to create it.

[MartinLiss]

I've been doing VB for a long time and I don't try to remember everything - that's what Help is for.

[SteveCRM]

except you need the cd in whenever you want help.

OK, pop quiz:

what's the third argument in the DrawPolygon API function, you have 5 seconds to respond.

I havent got the faintest clue, but who cares, I'll look it up as soon as I need it. It really doesn't matter at all.
As long as you can remember how to do If .. then statements you'll scrape by!

[MartinLiss]

SteveCRM: Not true. Providing you have the hard-drive space, you can load what you need from the CD to your hard-drive. If you only are interested in the VB portion of the MSDN CD, it's manageable.

When I want to do a specific taks, things just come to me from the back of my head. Like SteveCRM said, it's like a spoken language.