Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Is Visual Basic a Good Beginner's Language?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the would-you-write-"hello-world"-in-it dept.

Austin Milbarge asks: "Ever since the .NET framework came along a few years ago, Microsoft had promised VB developers that their language would finally be taken seriously. To be honest, I never understood why some non-VB developers thought of VB as a 'toy' language, but that is for another article. Anyways, Microsoft made good on their promise and transformed VB from an easy to learn language into an object oriented power house, with lots of OOP functionality thrown in. The old VB has been discontinued, and the new VB is no longer a simple language. With all the fancy changes, is VB still the great beginner's language it once was? Would you recommend it to a beginner over C#?"

5 of 1,100 comments (clear)

  1. Is Visual Basic a good beginner's language by johnw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Q: Is Visual Basic a good beginner's programming language.

    A: No.

    Next!

  2. Re:Why not both? by 77Punker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you're going to put him down, put him down for being a mongoloid CIS guy instead of a real computer scientist. These are comments on a forum, not dissertations. Minor grammatical errors are to be expected.

  3. Re:Visual Basic is horrible; use Python by huckda · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ruby is quite juicy as well...
    and if you want to do webapps..ruby on rails...yummy!

    --
    "Just Smile and Nod." --Huck
  4. Re:And in other questions... by maxume · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am getting down-modded unfairly in this thread. There is nothing trolling about my grandparent comment. Feel free to disagree, but that's the way I see it. My comment is certainly inflamatory, but I am pretty sure that calling Mrs. Clinton bat-shit insane falls on the inflamatory side of things, not the flame bait side. It's an opinion about a somewhat major public figure, not a personal attack towards somebody on slashdot.

    Oh well, I have had my own personal trolls before, why not do it again, worrying about slashdot karma is like worrying about what the drunk guy in the bar thinks of you.

    --
    Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
  5. Re:And in other questions... by maxume · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sure. But often, replies to a comment take on a context that extends further than the parent story. I am at least as on topic as the comment I replied to.

    --
    Nerd rage is the funniest rage.