vb 3

[tad214]

hello,
i was wondering if anyone has a copy of visual basic 3 program that i could download? i am trying to learn vb, and it seems to me, that vb3 is the more simple one to learn from. thanks for any help and or advice. DALE

 

[WannaFly]

why?

I have vb3 on floppy disks somwhere, its like 17 of them. Why not just get a good book? VB3 would be pretty useless i think

 

[CTho9305]

I strongly recommend using a more up-to-date version of VB so that the online examples actually apply. With something as old as VB3, you'll be hard-pressed to find working examples or get support.

 

[igowerf]

Get a good book instead. It might come with a free educational copy of VB.

 

[DT4K]

If you have to go back to VB3 because VB6 is too hard, you might as well give up.
Seriously, VB6 is by far the easiest language and environment to get started with.

Why do you want to learn VB?

If you are really interested in learning programming, I'd stay away from VB6 or earlier.

You might as wells start with a real object oriented language.
VB.Net, C#, Java, C++, take your pick.

 

[tkdkid]

VB6 will be far easier to learn than VB3. Not only are their many language improvements that make it more powerful and easy to use, but there are far more reference books available for it. It would be a waste of time to try to learn anything about VB3.

If you want to make small windows programs very quickly, stick with VB6. If you want to learn real programming, then pick one of the languages referenced in the above post. The .Net framework SDK is free from Microsoft. You get everything except visual studio, so you'll be writing code in a text editor of your choosing.

 

[KB]

Forget VB3. The changes from VB3 to VB6 are fairly large. VB3 may not even run in XP. Even though VB6 is still popular, VB.Net is were Microsoft is pushing people.
I would download the free microsoft .Net SDK, which includes a compiler and download a good VB.Net IDE from http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/