Noob to Visual Basic

[zomster]

Hiya

I am new to Visusal basic well knew to all programming actually other then HTML..

I would like to get into Visual basic learn how to make some basic apps, though I know nothing about writeing the source coad to get it to actually do somthing.. Best way for me to learn is by using some ones elses coad and modify it ect ect I find it best to learn that way... Would I actually be able to use and learn how to build simple apps with out knowing a thing about programing?

I am looking for any help and advice you people may have.. and would really like to know of some good coad resources that I can learn by modifying ect

Also I am currently using Visual Basic 4.0 old but have had it for some time, .. If I can actually learn to do somthing with this software will buy 6.0, is there much dif and the price worth it?

Any help at all will be great

Thx
Zom

[Simonkale]

You don't need any programming experience before starting Visual Basic. VB is easy to learn compared to other programming language like Visual C++. There are lots of site which offers free vb source codes, tutorials etc. But it is a good idea to buy a book. Since you have VB 4.0, there are lots of free ebooks which will get you started and later you can buy VB 6.0 or VB 7.0(which is the next release). Just do a seach on Google.com for VB goodies sites and for the free ebooks check out InformIT.com and look at its free library section.

http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Visual_Basic/

[zomster]

Thx Simon, glad to hear that.. so far found this site and another nice one for scripts and still looking know VB is one of the easier ones, but still through may have some learning to do before I jump into the actually software, sounds like its just going to be the next step or 2 maybe 3 hehe above HTML and matter of just finding good resource sites and learning the main coads and messing with alrdy done scripts..

Thx again

[Cakkie]

Well, there are some big differences between version 4 and version 6. If you have to start from skratch, I would advice you to directly start with VB6. The downside of course is that you will have to get a copy of VB6.
On the other hand, VB6 has a lot of features that make programming (excpecially when just starting) a lot lot lot easier. You have things like syntax coloring, intellisence, autocompletion. Also, you should receive a copy of MSDN, the help system of VB (and all other MS programming languages) which is a very great source to VB.

To start learning it, you could best buy a book in the way of 'teach yourself VB6 in 24 hours' or something, which come with examples and other usefull stuff. Those book usually don't cost much (I paid my first VB6 book aprox $10 and it did a really good job).

Tom Cannaerts
slisse@planetinternet.be

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