Learning VisualBasic

[TRUNKS]

Any resources you'd recommend? Stuff on the net , books ..etc.?

[newxuanzhi]

i am so happy people there r very kindly

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[TRUNKS]

Uhh...what just happened?

[Peo]

Not sure what newxuanzhi is talking about... maybe thought he was posting to another thread?

Topic moved to the Programming forum.

[matticus]

I don't program so I'm not too sure about any books or anything, but I'd check out amazon.com, overstock.com, and epinions.com and read some reviews on some of the books there...

[bloodyveins]

i don't know what you want to do with visual basic .
there are a lot of books out there (don't hope for a free one).

if you want to learn visual basic for software-hardware interfacing, "Visual Basic for Research and Development Lab" is a good start.

[bloodyveins]

if you are a common programmer, these may suit you:

"Visual Basic Resource Guide"
"Visual Basic Style Guide"
"Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 In 21 Days"
"Visual Basic Black Book"
etc. ( i forget others since they are not interesting enough)

[Wojtek]

Originally posted by bloodyveins

there are a lot of books out there (don't hope for a free one).

Any good library will carry new visual baisc books.
I recommend you also take a look at Delphi. Slightly higher level then visual basic and more powerfull, yet not as 1337 as C++ :)

[bloodyveins]

Originally posted by Wojtek
I recommend you also take a look at Delphi. Slightly higher level then visual basic and more powerfull, yet not as 1337 as C++ :)

High, higher and more higher level language will only take you into miscomprehension of programming concept.

A good programming comprehension commonly consists of these steps:
low level -> high level -> object oriented -> descriptive language

Do you know how intricate the process in the compiler in transforming human codes into machine ones is?? If you have a good comprehension, you will find your own programming optimization method which avoids the possible resource wasting.

[Wojtek]

I've done the VB -> Delphi -> C++ way

C++ mixed me up totally with classes and poiters and floters and stuff :), so I just sticked with vb/delphi

[bloodyveins]

Originally posted by Wojtek
I've done the VB -> Delphi -> C++ way

C++ mixed me up totally with classes and poiters and floters and stuff :), so I just sticked with vb/delphi


you may get different result for these ordered steps:
mnemonic -> asm -> C -> C++ -> Visual Basic or Delphi or Visual C++

you will feel easier to learn each step and will get more comprehension if you follow the path, from left to right.

[spec]

Pascal -> Delphi -> VB -> C++

hows that?

[Wojtek]

Originally posted by spec
Pascal -> Delphi -> VB -> C++

hows that?
Isnt delphi=pacal and pascal=delphi?
Or delphi=pascal under the borland name?
or is delphi a better version of pascal devved by borland?

[spec]

Delphi is based on pascal. Pascal is used ONLY as a learning tool, and was developed as such. It is very easy to do, and introduces structured programming, pointers, etc.

[bloodyveins]

Originally posted by spec
Delphi is based on pascal. Pascal is used ONLY as a learning tool, and was developed as such. It is very easy to do, and introduces structured programming, pointers, etc.

yeah, that's right. pascal is a kind of high level programming language. together with C, it manifests the power of structured programming.

[Bios]

Read other peoples source code.

Find out what certain parts do and why.

[mudi]

Delphi is based on pascal. Pascal is used ONLY as a learning tool, and was developed as such. It is very easy to do, and introduces structured programming, pointers, etc.

oh Pascal is like Turing

[spec]

I have never seen or heard of turning, but it is basically a pseudo code

[ExoWorks]

Why not learn VB .NET now?? Vb6 is too old.

I recommend JBD Press - Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Step By Step ...

[Dark_Element]

Why do u even want to bother with VB? i mean it is kinda just a cheap rip off of C and C++ (stupid microsoft stealing stuff off other perfictly good coding languages)......

this is how i learnt my programming (it may not work 4 every1)
PHP -> ActionScript -> C++ -> JAVA (hate java do not do it. Too hard no results, but it does have good compadability over OSs)