visual basic

[`?v?`]

does anyone know of any really good visual basic tutorials?

[Jordan]

If you really want to learn, I highly recommend buying a book. It is the most effective way to learn a language in my opinion.

[BFD]

While I concur with a good book being a great learning tool, I have also had success with the step by step tutorials that Microsoft (and their employee-bloggers) provides for new programming tools and platforms. I haven't looked at it closely, but the following seemed decent (and one of our interns used it with some success a few years back).
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/default.aspx

If it is typical of Microsoft's development platform websites, the stuff on the surface will give you a taste, then you just drill down on the links for more tutorials.

In addition - Visual Studio Express is free and you should be able to find the download.

[wildgoosespeeder]

Jan 10, 2011 18:37:34 GMT -8 Jordan said:

If you really want to learn, I highly recommend buying a book. It is the most effective way to learn a language in my opinion.

I disagree with that. The best way to learn any language is to have someone teach it to you not by lecture or book but by doing it hands-on because, well, coding is something when done alone is a hands-on subject. I had a hard time learning C++ because the teacher wasn't approaching it the right way. This is how I learned Visual Basic and other coding languages in high school and I learned really fast because it is better than studying, reading, or listening.

If you disagree with me still, what if basic math was taught by PowerPoint to little kids? One slide is for +, another for -, etc.? Doesn't work so well unless you do by example and have the kids interact.

[Jordan]

Jan 13, 2011 17:08:09 GMT -8 wildgoosespeeder said:

Jan 10, 2011 18:37:34 GMT -8 Jordan said:

If you really want to learn, I highly recommend buying a book. It is the most effective way to learn a language in my opinion.

I disagree with that. The best way to learn any language is to have someone teach it to you not by lecture or book but by doing it hands-on because, well, coding is something when done alone is a hands-on subject. I had a hard time learning C++ because the teacher wasn't approaching it the right way. This is how I learned Visual Basic and other coding languages in high school and I learned really fast because it is better than studying, reading, or listening.

If you disagree with me still, what if basic math was taught by PowerPoint to little kids? One slide is for +, another for -, etc.? Doesn't work so well unless you do by example and have the kids interact.

I don't think svs has access to a teacher that can teach him the hands on way. I find books to be very effective because they are hands on if you do the examples and then play with them; they're nothing like power points.

[`?v?`]

thanks guys i have gotten the microsoft book.

I have been working through some of the basic stuff so far

and yeah i dont have access to a teacher at this point in time.. because i am working on a project outside of school.

But i do have visual studio 2010 from our school so that is a plus