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MS Visual Basic 6.0 Help

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  • 06-10-2009 8:27pm
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    HatField
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    Hi guys, recently started a Comp Net Tech Course and i hear the boardsie programmers are genius and extremely helpful to newcomers in the area so im here on a mission: one of the modules is windows programming, the visual basic 6.0 stuff isnt as hard to learn as i thought (the property controls are kind of straighforward, etc.) BUT, the code and calculations are whats getting me and im just wondering if anybody here can recommend anything (be it a fast way to pick it up, a book, a website or video tutorial) that is well explained and easy to follow that can make a fluent visual basic programmer out of me!!

    Thanks in advance guys.


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    Trampas
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    Everything you want is here

    http://tinyurl.com/ydslu5e


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    HatField
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭HatField


    Ok i thought i specified a particular area of help that i needed, but anyway, thanks. I know how to use google btw!


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    Wompa1
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    Best way to learn is come up with an idea for a program like a simple calculator and then make it into a cash register etc. get more complex as you go. I find writing Pseudo code first is very helpful. Is it anything in particular that's got ya puzzled? Programming is really cool...I think anyway! * id multiply and / is divide I believe been a while since I did VB6...what part of the code is confusing you?

    Look into If statements, Loops, Arrays and Case Statements they can acheive most things


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    Evil Phil
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    Practice practice practice is all I can say. A good pet project to learn how to program (regardless of language) is replicating the Windows calculator. If you want to get really ambitious you could even do the scientific version. :D


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    none
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    I spent a good few years with VB being my main tool but it was a while ago. So when I was trying to quickly find any good online resources for the beginners now, I got none. There are some advanced topics on mvps.org but they won't probably help much now. I alway found MSDN to be the greatest repository for Windows/API/VB questions so I kept a local copy of its January 2000 version and I would still say this is the number one place for VB people of any level. Unfortunately, their online MSDN is a pile of rubbish (as opposed to local versions which were always brilliant) so I can't recommend it. Sorry, not much help but I just thought to give my 2c here as I used to be quite close with VB (not Fred, normal ones).


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