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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Rman on November 13, 2008, 05:10:56 PM

Title: Learning Visual Basic. Any recommended books or websites?
Post by: Rman on November 13, 2008, 05:10:56 PM

Also would any experience in C# be helpful?

Title: Re: Learning Visual Basic. Any recommended books or websites?
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on November 13, 2008, 08:27:33 PM

Don't learn VB; learn C++ or C# (which C# is pretty much VB.Net extended)

Title: Re: Learning Visual Basic. Any recommended books or websites?
Post by: Bacchus7 on November 13, 2008, 08:32:13 PM

VB's pretty easy, I'm sure with a background in C# you'll be fine whichever book you use.

Title: Re: Learning Visual Basic. Any recommended books or websites?
Post by: Fragamemnon on November 13, 2008, 09:16:50 PM

eh fark books if you know C# . just scrabble something up that's halfway intersting and then skim through an advanced-level book and go "well shit that would have made X task in my little project easier".

then again, I'm no fan of up-front learning when it comes to code. make things, then see how much they suck, that's where learnin' happens (IMO).

Title: Re: Learning Visual Basic. Any recommended books or websites?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on November 14, 2008, 12:14:03 AM

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Also would any experience in C# be helpful?

The framework and class libraries are the same; the language featuresets are almost the same (currently the main difference is VB allows optional dynamic typing).  They're almost the same language with different syntax.

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Don't learn VB; learn C++ or C# (which C# is pretty much VB.Net extended)

actually, if anything it's VB that's "extended", at least as of 3.5.  C# has better syntax and probably looks better on a resume though.