Ok, I am a newb to VB and I am just wondering how all the other fellow VBers started out as newbs... Every experienced programmer I have talked to told me to read tutorials or books. I have done a lil bit of this but I am more into the class teaching / structured study lessons. So basically I am wondering if there are any online classes or any other helpful hinters for a newbie VBer?

So far the best way I have educated myself is looking at sources for various programs and picking apart the code inch by inch....


Ok, I am drunk and prolly and yapping...So get this shit started, I am sure couple people on here prolly created some useful tutorials themselves so please post tuts or useful reading links =]~


I came to bring the PaIn....w00t0 friday night crunkness,,,, k...im done.


Oh one ending note...there has been a dispute between the programmers I asked as to which program a newbie should learn first. Most say VB then the others told me you should start with C?

tutorials and books are good for starting, but after a while, they become not enough for you. I won't suggest you a book, because everything what can be found in a book can also be found in free tutorials and free source codes. You can google for visual basic tutorials, i am sure you will find many. For source codes, there are various sites, here are some links for you:
koderz.com
planet source code
programmers heaven
you can search for specific codes there. But remember, interdisciplinary thinking helps you generating code in the language you want, even though the code is written in another language.
And even though many people hate and bash visual basic programs, i like visual basic, it's a very good language for graphical programming, easily using MFC without having to type codes. There are various good VB programs, retina is a pretty good example.

best way for me at least to learn a language is have a need for a specific type of program. I started out on vb to code some kind of winsock server.

Ok heres the deal:

VB is a RAD which is Rapid Application Development which to the best of my understanding means you want to solve a problem quickly, the network coding for VB6 is VERY easy..... war industries had some good simple winsock tutorials which I learnt with and found very useful (http://www.warindustries.com/download/showfiles.php?page=2&cid=11#) You need to login to download, I would have posted here but I dont know their policy on reposting and I cant remember my login details lol.

One thing I would say to you is once you start coding VB it is very difficult to get out of ... you will not want to spend time using another language when you could do the same thing in VB in less time and this means you wont learn the other language and this is bad as VB has some serious limitations ... that said im very impressed with .NET versions of VB (2003 and 2005) although im yet to find a decent, simple NET socket tutorial....

If you want to talk try the government security IRC channel (irc.governmentsecurity.org) or if you have MSN then PM me your address and I would love to chat to you.

Delphi is worse. Because Delphi makes worse habits, VCL for example, or sockets, you don't have to code much, create a server socket or a client socket, there are even complete HTTP and FTP servers, that's what makes lazy.



I prefer combining other languages with visual basic. Only visual basic commands will not satisfy your needs after a while, then you will seek other solutions like apis or DLLs. Same happens in Delphi, too, but Delphi makes it harder to work with apis, visual basic handles the apis better. But anyway, you will have to combine VB with other languages.

try vb.NET , much more flexable....just my 2 cents