Mar 2, 2006 - Visual Basic for Kids is an interactive, self-paced tutorial, providing a complete introduction to the Visual Basic programming language. Cakewalk sonar x1 producer full form. Welcome to this series of lessons about the Visual Basic programming language. Bob Tabor from LearnVisualStudio.NET introduces the topic, sets expectations and tips on how to get the most out of this series, instructs you on where you can download the software you'll need to get started and offers some encouragement as you begin your journey. Full course outline: • Mod 01: Series Introduction • Mod 02: • Mod 03: • Mod 04: • Mod 05: • Mod 06: • Mod 07: • Mod 08: • Mod 09: • Mod 10: • Mod 11: • Mod 12: • Mod 13: • Mod 14: • Mod 15: • Mod 16: • Mod 17: • Mod 18: • Mod 19: • Mod 20: • Mod 21: • Mod 22: • Mod 23: • Mod 24: • Mod 25: • Mod 26. Bob - I did a lot of work in the past year with your videos for C# when I was attempting to crash course the entire concept in a 'learn to code' environment. It did not turn out well. I've been teetering around VBasic because I've heard there are great scripting opportunities to learn, and to advance a career, for a fledgling network admin. So I wanted to ask you, from the basic cmd shell. Should I focus all of my attention on PS? Or should I add in a little VBasic as well? ![]() Thanks in advance! @: Hey Gavin, I believe that if you take small enough bites and you really chew on something until you can easily swallow it, you can eat the elephant (as the old saying goes). ![]() Where did you get stuck with C#? I think you have to decide what your goals are. Do you want to be a software developer in an enterprise? Do you want to be a consultant? Do you just want to build simple departmental apps in your current job? Based on how you answer those questions I think I can give you more specific advice. Let me know.:). @:Thanks for the quick reply. Where I failed in C# was my imagination and ability to draw up projects. The company we were working for absolutely failed in producing any of the promised contracts for their academy, and we were regulated to a 'benched' status for the rest of my duration with the company. Gm mdi driver download. My experience has always been with small business and quick and easy GUI usage, so when I was released into the world, I didn't have the slightest idea of where to start on building a portfolio to show potential employers that I was capable of coding and worth hiring. But my goals are primarily to leave small business positions and break into Enterprise level work. However to do this, I understand that I need to be able to build applications, batch administrative tasks, and so forth. My real interests lie in Hyper-V and VPN administration, primarily because I believe there is so much untapped potential. I would say my next level of interest goes into Sharepoint development. From there I would say I want to focus on creating business critical apps that would shine in enterprise level situations. Thanks again! @: Sorry Bob, but I have to disagree. VB.Net is no doubt used by the majority of hobbyists, but it does not mean that it is a 'hobbyist-only' language. I have used it extensively (in fact, exclusively) for huge Enterprise Level projects with no shortage of features or power. Going along the same lines, the C++ language is used by everyone from hobbyists to engineers for controlling huge cyber-physical systems. Can anyone call C++ a hobbyist language?? I must say, that the VB.Net does not get its fair share of credit and it is because of false impressions created around it. That said, a fantastic course whatsoever!!! @: I think the point I am laboring to make is this. VB gets compiled down to the same IL as C# and other managed languages. In that regard, it is no different from C#. However, there's a different culture around C# than VB. This speaks to the quality of reference materials available. For example, look on the website. there are no VB examples. On Microsoft Virtual Academy -- most topics are only covered in C#. At TechEd or Build conferences, I can't remember seeing a speaker use VB to demo a given feature. Most books only have source code examples for C# for a given topic. Most StackExchange answers are provided in C#. So, again, I'm not disparaging the language. It is sufficient to handle virtually any task that C# can handle because they use the same tools. The true difference is in the experience as a result of the Microsoft development community at large. Hope that makes sense. Just to be clear, VB *is* different from C++ because you can create either managed or unmanaged C++ applications. First: Thank you Bob for excellent tutorials. I am semi retired after a long career in computer technology. Programming has spanned machine language for the 4004, 8080, 68000 series etc, through assembler, Fortran, BASIC (quick and others), Pascal (et al), C & C++, VB/VBA (and others). Visual Basic Express For KidsThe question of which language should one start out learning prompts me to comment as follows: C# is unquestionably the more popular choice, and is probably a more 'scientific' language, so go there for a career in application programming. However if your objectives are rapid, accurate results, then VB is the better choice. My present programming activities are mostly for fun and getting quick results. VB helps me to get VBA stuff working for elementary automation of the MSOffice products. I have an unofficial rule that anything I do in MSOffice more than 3 times in a week gets 'automated' (macro recording is marvelous!!). I wonder if other senior gentlemen have similar ideas. An example of a 'fun' application I wrote (in VB5) is a file renaming app. I use 'VeeDub64' to create movies from time lapse photographs. VeeDub requires all the photos to be strictly sequential with no gaps. After deleting those pictures I don't want, I run the renaming app to get them all sequential, then run VeeDub. If this is the right place, I can upload the app and the source code for anyone interested (free of any charge or restriction). Maybe someone could do a tut about converting VB5 to VS2013?? Hi Bob and thanks for the lessons.I have to say though, that this is not coming easy for me and I believe it has to do with the windows forms and objects. I learned computers on an apple 2 and a commadore vic 20.I could write simple programs in basic, so I though this would be a very natural progression for me. How wrong I have been. It seems like I would prefer to write code for the windows and forms instead of drag and drop system, and how many times I want to put a 'goto' or a 'poke' into the code.It seems like they took a very basic and great program called 'basic' and made it a hellofa lot more complicated.But I am stubborn and I refuse to give up,,,and your teaching method is making breaking old habbitts easier.thanks for the great job. Hi Bob I have just completed all 26 of your lessons, and I want to thank you so much for what I have got out of these. Clearly your passion for, and knowledge of programming makes you a fantastic teacher and I thank you again for this, I almost feel that I know you! I come from a VB6 background which I learnt about 12 years ago when I retired from a career as an electrical design engineer. Just for pleasure, I now enjoy writing Windows desktop applications, particularly relating to modelling, data acquisition from external hardware and control of external hardware. This may all sound a bit grand, but I assure you is not, and I am very much a novice, for example I have only just grasped the idea of Classes and their awesome power. Anyway I realised a year or two back that VB6 had come to the end of its days, but I soldiered on not knowing how to replace it, or what new language I should learn.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |