Want to learn Visual Basic 6 1

[itbeginner]

Can you please recommend me a good book for learning VB 6 from scratch taking into consideration the fact that i don't have any programming skills? Thanks

 

[CubeE101]

Do you REALLY want to learn VB6?

If you have NO Programming skills, you might want to jump into .NET, there are actually free training video on the microsoft web site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/atthemovies/

And you can get a free beta copy of VB.Net 2005 Express from here:

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vbasic/

And the rest of the express tools from here:

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/

And the VB Developer Center is located here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/

---- NOTE ----

Please note, I still use VB6 quite a bit, but I think that is mainly because I have used it for soooo... Long

The only reason I suggest learn .Net instead is to avoid the learning curve of migrating to .Net in the future as well as having to port all of your code to .Net

---- Otherwise ----

There are tutorials all over the net...

Google: VB6 Tutorials

And you will get lists apon lists of them

But if you still prefer a hard copy reference, You might try:

Visual Basic 6 for Dummies (w/ CD)
(Sam's) Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 21 days (w/ CD)
(Sam's) Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 24 hours (no CD and typically thinner and less detail)

Note that a CD typically add's 50% to the price, if not doubles it...

Basically, Just about ANY starter training book you buy will have, more or less, the same content...

The rest is just tricks of the trade that you pick up over time with experience and through forums like this ;-)

Have Fun, Be Young... Code BASIC
-Josh

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[itbeginner]

Josh, thanks a lot for all these useful sites. I've had a look at them but its not what am looking for. In fact all the tutorials explain mainly on how to build applications with VB by explaining on how to use list boxes, etc... What i want is program in the hard way, by making use of
- arrays and/or records
- different data types
- selection
- iteration
- procedures
- functions
- searching techniques
- files

You may wonder why i want to learn this way of programming. I need them for the sake of a project. Can you now please recommend me books in which i can learn all these?

 

[johnwm]

You can eat a whole elephant, but only one bite at a time. Start with the easy stuff recommended above and work on from there.

{b}However{/b] to start your programming career by learning a language no longer manufactured, and with a limited manufacturers support period seems a bit shortsighted (unless this is a school project of course). Look for one of the more modern languages

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[CubeE101]

>> Can you now please recommend me books in which i can learn all these?
I listed 3 books above... Not sure what you mean...?

>> You can eat a whole elephant, but only one bite at a time.
Exactly, VB builds on itself...

For example:
you could learn the different data types,
then you can make arrays out of them,
then make functions to return data types or arrays,
then make subs (procedures) to call functions etc...
then make a search sub using the other subs you made
then save the results to a file...

Any starter book you buy should tell you how to do all of that... that is what the language is... like i said, the rest is just doing tricks you learn with experience... Everyone has there own style of coding... there are several ways to do, what ever you are trying to accomplish... so they can't really write a book to tell you one specific way, because that's up to you to decide...

But, the topics you listed above can be found in any starter book like the 3 listed above...

Visual Basic 6 for Dummies (w/ CD)
(Sam's) Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 21 days (w/ CD)
(Sam's) Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 24 hours (no CD and typically thinner and less detail)

Have Fun, Be Young... Code BASIC
-Josh

http://cubee.topcities.com

PROGRAMMER: Red-eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with inanimate objects.