Recommend a beginner's book for Visual Basic

[Leisha Wharfield]

I agree with the ideal of writing clean code, but I think those of us 
who still believe in it are quickly becoming dinosaurs. To people coming 
up, "it just doesn't matter."

Leisha

Doug Fuller wrote:

>>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.
>>    
>>
>
>As someone coming from a C/C++/Java background, I can't stand 
>VB.  Why does Microsoft have to reinvent the wheel (i.e. 
>standard library functions) in everything they do?  Things 
>like substring functions.  In almost every computer language, 
>it's called substr().  I spent an hour digging through the 
>worthless help pages finding that it's called Mid$() in VB.
>
>Now, having said that, I do want to briefly address that last 
>quoted paragraph - syntax does matter, insomuch as it 
>contributes to readability/maintenance.  In the spirit of 
>collaboration and/or modification, knowing how to write clear 
>code and document it well will save time and effort in the 
>future if you or a collaborator decide to tweak parameters.
>  
>
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