Visual Basic

[Lionheart_0]

I am take the first step of programing at my school, and they start out using Visual basic. Now i love computers and everything, and i seem to be one of the best in my class, but i wish to be better. Im wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of a site where i can learn the coding for visual basic, so that i can be better.

 

 

 

Yes, i have already cheacked on google.

 

 

 

No, i dont want something to know how to use the program, just about coding (like how to code buttons to do stuff)

 

 

 

No, im not trying to buy the program.

 

 

 

And no im not going to find a better programing language, as this is what the course deals with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

K thx.

[Anesthesia]

Are you using VB or VB.NET?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In my experience .NET is harder because of all the object orientation crap, which I hate. If you are not using .NET I would recommend just playing around with the controls available to you, seeing how they work and what effects each of the variables have. Most of it is very easy to work out as things are well labelled. I had very little VB.NET experience then I was just told out of the blue for an assignment in my HCI module to code a pocketpc MP3 player... I didn't use many tutorials, most of the things I managed to work out from the IDE alone (the autocomplete when entering keywords is really helpful for that).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perhaps set yourself a challenge and then try and accomplish it. In my experience no tutorial quite compares to figuring it out for yourself.

[Lionheart_0]

Are you using VB or VB.NET?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In my experience .NET is harder because of all the object orientation crap, which I hate. If you are not using .NET I would recommend just playing around with the controls available to you, seeing how they work and what effects each of the variables have. Most of it is very easy to work out as things are well labelled. I had very little VB.NET experience then I was just told out of the blue for an assignment in my HCI module to code a pocketpc MP3 player... I didn't use many tutorials, most of the things I managed to work out from the IDE alone (the autocomplete when entering keywords is really helpful for that).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perhaps set yourself a challenge and then try and accomplish it. In my experience no tutorial quite compares to figuring it out for yourself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No no no, yousee this is a school thing... im in high school. So i dont have this program at home (Windows Visual Basic 6.0). I want to obtain the diffrent ways to code, and how to make objects do things, so that when i go into class, i can learn at a faster pace then the rest of the class, and perhaps do some of my own work when im finnished. I just used the program for the first time today, and all i know how to do is creat lables and buttons.

[wahoo]

In my opinion, visual basic is not a very good programming language, if you want to start actual programming, the best place to learn is java, then move onto harder things like c, c++ etc if that is what you plan to do.

[Lionheart_0]

In my opinion, visual basic is not a very good programming language, if you want to start actual programming, the best place to learn is java, then move onto harder things like c, c++ etc if that is what you plan to do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And no im not going to find a better programing language, as this is what the course deals with.

 

 

 

Plz learn to read

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BTW the school does offer courses in C++ and Java, but they are for higher up, and i have to take this class first to take the others.

[Anesthesia]

It would be very hard to learn how to use visual basic specifically without having the program there in front of you. Very hard. If you can then I'd suggest going to a computer room that's not in use and having a play around there if you can.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, learning how to create controls isn't what will speed you up most effectively. That is knowledge that can be gained on the fly, in a matter of minutes generally. You would be better off learning the logic of programming and the different concepts available such as ifs, for-next, do-while etc. These could then be done in pseudocode without you ever having to touch a machine, and they will apply in pretty much every language you'll learn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning how to program will help you go faster, not learning how to use specific features of the VB IDE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think VB is a good language to learn to program in, it was one of the ones I learnt with (along with Pascal). Certainly easier than going straight into Java. However you may encounter some problems if you then try VB.NET expecting it to be something like 'VB 7'.

[runesmithie]

Do they supply you with a book? I've found books to be superior to all online resources for programming ;)

[Lionheart_0]

Do they supply you with a book? I've found books to be superior to all online resources for programming ;)

 

 

 

:cry: Nope non, but we are supposed to spend a few days inthe labe, fifteen minutes a day working on a title page for our note books this week. I find it too easay to make title pages, so am gonna make it tonight, and that way i get fifteen minutes of free time each day to fool around with the program.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But what im trying to say, is i dont know how to do anything, except use the visual object. I have no idea how to even get them to do anything, and thats what i want to know how to do fast.

[Stuart_G]

http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/Visual_Basic/All/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure if that will be of any help or not, but theres a bunch of tutorials there that might help you with what your looking for.

[Anesthesia]

You will get to know how to do them fast when you are in class. There is virtually nothing to it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I am saying is that learning how to do that at home won't help you much in the long run and will be incredibly difficult without having visual studio right there in front of you when you're trying to learn.

[Lionheart_0]

http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/Visual_Basic/All/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure if that will be of any help or not, but theres a bunch of tutorials there that might help you with what your looking for.

 

 

 

Thanks alot man. I found some basic coding on the site, and got to it. I then branched off on my own and did some small stuff without the need of codes being given to me. Its acutle easy stuff!

[Hannibal]

The newest versions of VB.NET have a decent free version :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This will be quite enough for you while you're learning, maybe if you ever go Pro with VB (which I wouldn't recommend, and which doesn't happen a lot from what I know, but still...) then you'd probably want a more complete edition (which then costs lots of money of course).

[Anesthesia]

He's using VB6 at school.

[Hannibal]

He's using VB6 at school.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So? Basic programming language is still the same. He won't be doing much else yet anyway...

[Lionheart_0]

Im quite happy, this is very easy stuff to me. The teacher gave us a program to make today, of course very simple, only making text appear in some labels (he tought us today, but i knew this on tuesday), and was finnished in less then 5 minutes, woot!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh and thx for the link, ill cheack it out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

edit, thx for the link, unfortuantly i have windows 98, so i cant use it :cry:

[devilheart14]

yeh i was looking at this two. As i also just started using visual basic at school this year and have started of with basic projects e.g. temp. convertors, magic squares, counters etc. so any 1 that could show some where to learn futher as i have a text book but it dosnt have anything with vb in it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Owww btw if you want to see some of my projects so far give me a yell and ill send u them to check out, and 2 study.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As its hard 2 start to learn from scratch/ nowhere