There are many questions involved in selecting a programming language.
Is the purpose of programming to understand computers ?
Is the student wishing to train as a programmer - and if so will they be developing applications, coding operating systems or writing games
And most importantly- are they learning program design ?
The greatest problem with VB is the lack of a methodology suitable for the event-driven paradigm when being taught to 'less serious' students.
I teach VB6 to these students, but good ones write recursive functions to process data in TreeView components in their second year. This is NOT trivial.
Jim Williamson
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There are many questions involved in selecting a programming language. Is the purpose of programming to understand computers ? Is the student wishing to train as a programmer - and if so will they be developing applications, coding operating systems or writing games And most importantly- are they learning program design ? The greatest problem with VB is the lack of a methodology suitable for the event-driven paradigm when being taught to 'less serious' students. I teach VB6 to these students, but good ones write recursive functions to process data in TreeView components in their second year. This is NOT trivial. Jim Williamson