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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#?"

4 of 1,100 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Bad idea by RetroGeek · · Score: 0, Troll

    learn assembler first so that you know what's REALLY going on inside that computer.

    Try machine language! And entering it directly into RAM using paddle switches. Then setting the CPU bootstrap address to the beginning of your code. And the RAM LED addressses to where you placed you results.

    (Did this in the advanced digital class)

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  2. Re:And in other questions... by maxume · · Score: 0, Troll

    OMG! Flamebait?!

    Certainly obnoxious, but it is closer to true than it is to false, and I was actually trying to make a point about the pathetic floundering of the democratic party.

    Really, my political leanings are pretty much what-should-be-libertarian-but-
    they-the-party-are-bat-shit-insane-and-I-slightly- prefer-social-justice-
    to-low-taxes-so-the-republicans-are-just-as-bad, this isn't flamebait.

    Oh well, back to the vodka.

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  3. Re:Why not both? by Valar · · Score: 0, Troll

    go on to get PhD's and disover better sorting algorithms

    Jesus. Christ. They don't even teach you people to sort properly anymore? That was CS/CE101 when I was still a computer engineering focus. And yes, I mean a multitude of sorts. Good ones. The only time I ever saw a bubble sort was when I had to pick one out of a list of assembler programs on a test.

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  4. How much did MS Pay? by RobK · · Score: 0, Troll

    How much did MS pay for this crap??? This is the next to worset thing I've ever seen posted on Slashdot.

    Did someone from Slashdot remember to send Microsoft a bill for doing their PR work?

    500+ comments? You should all be ashamed for paying too much attention to this garbage. It's a troll.