Visual Basic... First Look

I want this article to act as an introduction to VB for a newbie the one who is just entering the world of programming. I think VB is most intresting and most easy programming language to learn and the kind of things you can do with it is just amazing.

Just as an example when I was preparing for my MCA exam. I had to prepare One Words for my entrance exam and I spent days learning 100's of one words and then a shock out of blue hit me when I realized that I know all the answers but when I was writting them down I couldn't spell most of them right. So, I had to find a way to learn the spellings and that's where VB came to my aid. I developed a utility in no time which would read the one word's from a file and If I gave correct spelling it gave me 10 points and a wrong answer would deduct 5. It was fun and I used to practice with it 2 times a day which meant that by the time I faced my exam I had perfected the spellings of all the One Words.So, This should help you understand how VB can help you.

VB is written with the help of and IDE known as Microsoft visual studio. It is an interpreted and as well as compiled language. Simply defined VB is an event driven, Object oriented language. Now, I will explain these terms further.

Event Driven: Everything that happens in VB can be defined as an event. Few examples would be Click of a Button, Moving mouse over an Object, Entering text in text box, closing the application, Opening the application.

Object Oriented: Everything in VB is defined as Objects. Few examples are Button, TextBox, Form, Label. Every Object has some methods and some properties associated with it and we just have to manipulate those properties and methods using the language.

Once we understand these few basic things completely then the only thing that remains is get accustomed to VB IDE and learning the syntax. To help you with that I am providing the link to certain websites that contain good examples and sample codes for basic VB Programs.
Basic VB Introduction Tutorial
VB Sample Codes

In next few posts I will adding more details and some sample codes for simple utilities that can help.
So keep looking.