Where did you learn vb?

[oetje]

I was just wondering how you all learned vb. I learned it by a book: Mastering Visual Basic 6 by Evangelos Petroutsos.
Thanks.

[G.Kumaraguru]

WHO KNOWS...

I am thinking of learning VB after I pass the 2 MCP Exams in VB6 and after getting my GURU status here.

joke,,,He...he..he

Ahem..actually the Internet is my tutor.I bought no books
for vb till now..May be when I get one for free. :-)


...BTW checkout this..

I went from pure coding know nothing not even html or basic and dived right into Visual Basic 5.0 ...I taught myself with a few of my friends knowing VB pretty well and I mooching off of them for help every two seconds I soon came to realize I needed a book or two or three or four as it came out in the end lol. I never did finish each book from front to end but looked at it when I needed help with something. I never took a single class on Visual Basic and I dont think that their is a reason to take one. But as for now I would be proud to say im Beyond Intermediate but who am I to say where I stand. I fit my own needs and sometimes I dont. I run into alot of problems mostly not coding problems but lack of reference or information on how to implement a certain thing.

[Sam Finch]

I got a Juob ast a Software house with no real Experience in coding beony the Real basics, they taught me VB, payed me 3 grand for the privilage and when I left I hadn't written one single usefull line of code for them. Then I got Some Books and learnt the Rest.

I taught myself. Started out with vb3.0..downloaded it off a website and than started from there. Took me a year to learn..for one year, I didn't even start because I had no clue as to what to do. I went to sleep one night, woke up, and new more than I should've then. I currently use vb4.0 and vb5.0. And there you go...there's my life ..just kidding ;].

I'm self taught as well. I started out using Qbasic which got me my experience in BASIC programming. Then I moved on to Visual Basic. It was difficult to switch from DOS to Windows OOP. I never read a single book on programming; all I had was the Help Files and my previous experience, but I think things turned out pretty good in the end.

You learn better when you do things yourself - not what the books say to do.

First programming: MetaComco FirST Basic for the Atari 520 STFM Microcomputer, wow, that was in 1988! time flies...

VB History:
Started last year, bought books, came here regularly.
Now, i'm making Activex controls, DLL's, databases (badly), and now i'm starting PALM OS programming for my Palmpilot organiser which i just got for my birthday ! wooohoooo

[mikeycorn]

I went to the Megatron's Replies School of Visual Basic.

[SteveCRM]

Totally self taught, mostly from here.

[planeswalker99]

I knew C++ before I learned VB. After first year of C++ I got my VB compiler and taught myself. Then In school I took VB class and since we were ahead of the class me and group of friends got to work independently. It was really fun and thank god the rest of them were there. We all helped each other debug our programs MANY times. It's always good to have a fresh look at your program.

[Dim]

Like most ppl here i started with vb3 on my Compaq LTE Lite 4/25E witch is a 486 hehe i don't think any of you remember them. Anyways...and i let the internet to be my guide.

[ycsim]

the NET is my tutor though...i started off win qbasic and went on to c
then i got a vb compiler and learnt vb through the internet

[Rapmaster]

I started doing AppleSoft BASIC on Apple IIe (1978 vintage) and IIGS's... then moved to QBASIC on the PC, and then moved to VB 2.0, which I followed along with until VB 6.

[Stevie]

I taught myself VB5 through the on-line help, and forums like this. Believe it or not some of the on-line help can be really usefull when starting from scratch.

I now have books as well on VB, but they are just there for reference, and to make my shelf at work look good.