Preserved Topic: Visual Basic (Page 1 of 1)

i know this kind of off topic for the Asylum hence there being no reffrence to it in the forum or in the FAQ . Im major novice to proggraming i've just learnt Qbasic and well it's kind of dated so I was directed towards learning Visual Basic's for more "Functional applications" so does anyone in the asylum have any reccomendation on Books or Websites for learning VB??

Anyone help would be appreciated as always

Thanks
Trigger

There are a ton of sites and books out there but since the development of .NET, I haven't done much with VB.

If I can suggest one book it would be Francisco Balaena (sp?) book Programming Visual Baisc 6.0 It is a great book and covers everything.

As far as web sites, I will post some when I get home tonight.

Later,
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~Binary is best~

Cprompt did you neer get home ???

haha! Man I suck! I can't remember shit anymore. That chemically induced past is really starting to catch up with me.

I have some time now on my lunch break, I'll go through and post them.

Later,
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~Binary is best~

OK, here are a few of them:

*www.vbexplorer.com/
*http://searchvb.techtarget.com/
*http://www.vbwire.com/
*http://www.vbwm.com/
*http://www.devx.com/vb/
*http://www.freevbcode.com/
*http://www.mvps.org/vb/
*http://216.26.168.92/vbworld/default.aspx

Later,
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{EDIT} Fixed yer links

[This message has been edited by Petskull (edited 07-24-2002).]

Thanks for that CPompt ill take a look at them
as soon as i finsh learning about SSI

anyway Thanks once agian

Well I think http://code.box.sk works

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

I like VB. I started out on it. Now that I look back, it is a language all to itself really. At least everything pre .NET

I really wish that I would have started off learning C instead. It was real hard to switch doing other languages.

Later,
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~Binary is best~

I think VB is a good learning language. It's what I started off on, except for a tiny bit of C++.

But if you already have Basic down, then I don't think there's much advantage to learning VB unless you're going to use it for something that specifically requires it. Otherwise, I'd recommend learning C++. Maybe Java...

Shall i just stick to learning Qbasic then and not bother with VB?

wha?
I never said nothin'....

but for the record I agree with you InI; the wrox books are great and vb does indeed blow goats - but you've got to admit that it's not a bad place to begin a programming career before you move onto the propper oo languages


oh and the "visual basic black book" (ISBN: 1576102831) isn't bad as well

have a nice day
I:.

forget QBasic! its dying!

Don't stick to QBasic. If it's a choice between QBasic and VB, use VB. I'm just saying if you have a choice you should learn a language that's more widely used, and more powerful.

Like what? i want to start on something simple.. so then i've got some where to work from when i want ot learn C++

Actually, Javascript wouldn't hurt, to do a little of that on the side. The syntax is very similar to C++, and you can learn a little about object-oriented programming.

You may want to use VB as a step towards C++. If you're *really good* with QBasic, then don't bother. But if programming is still difficult in some ways, then using VB for a while might help some.

well im intrsting in learning Javascript 2.. thing is i want to learn so many things all at the same time

PHP,Perl , VB,C++,Javascript,
and more :S i've got to try and find a order that might even make learning the others slightly eaiser ,,
but its like sensrory over load
i've been trying to learn PHP and VB at the same time and its just not working out

Trigger:

I know what you mean. I tried to learn a lot in a little bit of time. Take a look at it this way. What is it that you want to accomplish? Do you want to do Web applications or Windows Applications?

If you want to do "web" stuff. Go with JavaScript as a starting point. It is a great way to jump start and get the hang of things like "object oriented programming". Then you can move on to C++ and then Perl and throwing PHP in there too.

If you want to do Windows apps, go with VB all the way. You can make some GREAT apps with VB. I have made all kinds of things using VB. It is great for linking up with like an Access database as well as a lot of other things.

So it really depends on what you want to do.

I wouldn't do more than two really. VB for Windows and JavaScript for Web. I think that is a good starting routine. That is where I am right now. I am not the greatest programmer by any means, but I do know a bit about VB and am working on more of a knowledge in JavaScript and PHP.

Hope that helps.

Later,
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~Binary is best~

i read some stuff here that quite frankly pisses me off
so here it goes...

first of all, trigger, i say forget VB, i think with qbasic you just about had enogh of basic. i admit it's harder to learn c++ or java, but it pay off in the end. trust me.

next, javascript has absolutely NOTHING to do with object oriented programming. the core of oop (inheritance, polymorphism) is clearly missing. true, you can create objects, but that's about it. they say javascript is object based, whatever that means (i guess beacuse it uses objects ).
(c++ is object oriented, but not purely. java on the other hand is a pure oop language)

if you'd learn c++ first, things like PHP, javascript will seam like 'piece of cake' and you'd just KNOw after that what a real shit VB is. GREAT apps in VB? get real! i guess you can make a decent LOOKING app in about 5 minutes. but you'll end up with an overbloated, buggy and sloooow code. not to mention it will need vbrun to run.

one last time: FOR PETE'S SAKE, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIMe ON VB!!!

phheww. bygone now go and learn c++

Well I'm glad you cleared that up lacapaca.

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Ok guys... after being scared shitless by laca's post .
I wonderded if Laca's ever considred anger mangement j/k

anyway ok....
ill take a look at C++ no doubt it will bog me down way to much and confuse the hell out of me so ill go onto Javascript , then php with perl??
and then over to C++ ? and then ill put VB to the side untill iget bored

but i've also been told pythons good to start to C++

Ie
Start with python and then go onto to C++ anyone got an opinon on this one ?
no doubt everyone has



[This message has been edited by Trigger (edited 07-26-2002).]