Recommend a beginner's book for Visual Basic

[Katz, Lena B.]

I've always found C an easier language to learn (I didn't really grok VB until after I'd taken enough C++ and Java to translate).
 
So, I'm gonna recommend http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ .  Of course, the memory management is unnecessary (your student shouldn't be looking at "Advanced Concepts", as they don't exist in VB), and all the syntax will be different.  But, hey, that's part of what learning programming is about... learning that the syntax doesn't really matter.  What matters is what you want to do, and how difficult it's going to be.
 
Lena

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	I have a student who wants to learn how to write Visual Basic code.  She
	has very little background in programming, but that's what Basic was
	designed for all those years ago.   There are a lot of books out there
	on Visual Basic and it would help a lot if we could get some advice to
	narrow them down to one or two that are well written and good for
	getting started.   No advanced material on graphics, sockets, databases
	etc. needed.   Thanks.
	
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