Does anyone know Visual Basic
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carmenelectra
Cathlete
do you know any programming at all? it is the easier of the programming languages to learn but if you havent done it before, it can be frustrating. It is the most fun to learn too. C++ proframming is hellish :+
This is one programming language I have not bothered to learn. The reason is that everybody says it's the easiest so I figure I can buy a good book or find a couple of good tutorials over the internet and study for a couple of weeks and that would be enough to learn it.
I have to ask you the same question as C.E., do you know any programming at all? That is important. To me learning languages is easy because it is what I do, but I don't know how it would be for someone that has little programming experience. C++ is hard to learn on your own, especially if you don't know a high level language already. It was the first language I learned in college, followed by Java.
Why do you want to learn VB? Is it for yourself or do you have any projects at work that require knowledge of VB? If it is for yourself you can learn it slowly by buying a couple of books and practicing. If it is for a project at work I think you should do a crash course by finding a couple of tutorials over the internet and learning just what is necessary to complete the project.
I have to ask you the same question as C.E., do you know any programming at all? That is important. To me learning languages is easy because it is what I do, but I don't know how it would be for someone that has little programming experience. C++ is hard to learn on your own, especially if you don't know a high level language already. It was the first language I learned in college, followed by Java.
Why do you want to learn VB? Is it for yourself or do you have any projects at work that require knowledge of VB? If it is for yourself you can learn it slowly by buying a couple of books and practicing. If it is for a project at work I think you should do a crash course by finding a couple of tutorials over the internet and learning just what is necessary to complete the project.
carmenelectra
Cathlete
do you do programming for a living rose?
dss62467
Cathlete
The only programming I know is building complex queries in MS Access and COGNOS. I build a lot of huge functions using math and logic, but I only use the Macros that kind of build themselves (Access and Excel). I'd like to be able to build some macros in other programs like Outlook and Cognos - both use Visual Basic. I don't NEED it for anything at work, except to help take some of the obnoxious manual steps out of things that I do.
Plus I figured it would be something useful to have in my skills. I do get the concept of the programming, just haven't had the opportunity or resources to learn it.
Plus I figured it would be something useful to have in my skills. I do get the concept of the programming, just haven't had the opportunity or resources to learn it.
bubbles100
Cathlete
That being the case, I think you'd have fun learning VB. I started teaching myself VB a few years back using a book that had a CD tutorial. It wasn't very hard. I think I just moved on to something else and never finished. Can't remember why.
Margaret
Margaret
>do you do programming for a living rose?
I work in the software engineering industry. I started as a programmer (educational software and database programming) but now I work in the design of algorithms mostly, and programmers translate my designs to code. I always have to check out the outcome (and sometimes fix some mistakes) so I have to know about languages too. It used to be a 12 hour job mostly, but I've been working less hours because I've been studying and preparing myself to go to graduate school next year (Fall 2006).
I work in the software engineering industry. I started as a programmer (educational software and database programming) but now I work in the design of algorithms mostly, and programmers translate my designs to code. I always have to check out the outcome (and sometimes fix some mistakes) so I have to know about languages too. It used to be a 12 hour job mostly, but I've been working less hours because I've been studying and preparing myself to go to graduate school next year (Fall 2006).
VB has macros and so does Visual C++. You definitely can learn VB on your spare time. There are tons of good books and online tutorials that help a lot. Even if you don't need it for anything, it is great to learn a new skill. Maybe you don't need it now, but you never know if something comes on in the future and you can use it.