How hard is programming something in VB6?

[Nerd]

From a newbies point of view. I don't know anything about programming, but I sure would like to start off doing something in VB. How hard is it to program? Is it only a select few of people that are able to program? Can anyone program? Help me, thanks guys!

 

[AndyHui]

I would say that it is one of the easier languages. Draw the interface, and then simply code for how you want the components to function.

That's an extremely simplified overview though, but for newbies, VB is not too bad as a starting point.

 

[AznMaverick]

VB is pretty easy to understand and isn't as complicated as the many other programming languages out there...

 

[MrWhiteUK]

VB is very easy to learn how to use, but you may not understand exactly what your doing and why your doing it, just HOW to do it. I would recommend learning a little C(++) afterwards, it's more low level and will give you a better understanding for coding.

You can get a cut down version of VB called B working model edition free with some books, Sam's teach yourself VB is a good choice.

This is a gret site for beginners.
http://www.vb-world.net/



Peace

 

[Elledan]

It's very easy to program in VB, but for many tasks it's just slow. Everyone who wants to run your program(s) must have the VB runtime stuff installed, else it won't even run.

I'd certainly stick to C/C++.

 

[Nerd]

Even a stupid person with enough confidence and time could learn this language?

I been trying to learn VB3 for quite sometime, and at some points I could never get pass "hello world" showing up in a text box.

I'll let you guys know what part I got stuck on, I hope you can help me. Thanks for your quick and helpful replies!

 

[Infidelity]

Visual Basics is fairly simple, however, if you start writing complicated windows appilications and API it will become complicated.

 

[Nerd]

How hard is it to program something in vb to use cgi, and winsock?

 

[Nerd]

Also can you recommend a good book to get me started? I've read those dummy books and they're confusing at some points.

 

[Moohooya]

VB is great if the program doesn't have to do much, and you don't mind having little or no controls over many aspects. I.e. if you have a simple job to do and you don't care how it is done, VB may be for you.

C++ will let you do just about anything on Windows that Windows can do. (Every now and then you might need a line or two of assembler, but 98+% of C++ programmers don't.) C++ comes in many differnt flavours. C, C with classes, C+, C++ and advanced C++. Most C++ programmers are somwhere around the C+. They uses classes, might touch a template every now and again.

 

[Descartes]

<< It's very easy to program in VB, but for many tasks it's just slow. >>



Why, oh why, does Elledan continue to show his ignorance in every programming related post? The sad fact of the matter is, and you've shown this many times, that you don't know VB at all. So, your opinion really doesn't matter here.

MrWhiteUK said it perfectly.

 

[yakko]

The way you guys are making it sound I should grab my friends copy of VB6 and teach myself something.

 

[mk52]

VB6 being slow is a myth. VB is aimed at small to medium sized windows applications. And a compiled executable is not much slower than the same in VC++. At work we use VB mostly for small batch programs that create reports for the back office, or front end OMS (order management system). Accessing databases is very easy and convenient with ADO 2.5, and performance wise its not bad either. Of course it cant compete with optimized C code but Vb is very powerful and the fact that you can import VC++ functions or API calls to speed up your apps is a neat addition. Also speed isn?t that much of an issue anymore, most pcs at work run at least on a PIII 450, the millisecond you gonna save with C++ is not worth the effort. In reality the important thing is how fast can you as a programmer deliver. Business managers have no idea of coding, or how long/complicated something is to program, all they care about is when will it be done cause a every day it takes you longer costs them tons of money. If I can code something with VB in half the time but it takes a couple of secs longer to run, then that?s a price a manager is willing to pay.

-MeliK