I NEED HELP LEARNING HOW TO CODE

[VBStudent523]

I AM TAKING A VB CLASS AND I AM TOTALLY LOST. ALTHOUGH MY INSTRUCTOR MAY BE AN EXCELLENT PROGRAMMER, I DON'T THINK EVERYBODY CAN TEACH. I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE ANY ASSISTANCE ANY CAN GIVE ME TO HELP ME BE AN EXCELLENT PROGRAMMER. IF I COULD I WOULD DROP THE CLASS, HOWEVER, IT'S TOO LATE AND I DESPERATELY NEED HELP TO CODE 3 PROGRAMS FOR CLASS.

THANKS

 

[rbobbitt]

Your question is too general. There are a number of tutorials and other resources around the net on VB, use the search engines. If you have a specific question, post it with some code. The way to becoming an excellent programmer? Program!

 

[DMG2000]

Excellent programmer? Come up with an idea of what kind of program you want to create, then start searching the MSDN library tutorials and code to figure it out....Visual Basic is pretty easy once you get the handle on the basics, such as creating forms, ADO (access data objects) and so forth....and being Visual, you should feel lucky your not jumping in PERl or C!

 

[sjulian]

I can sympathize, I got my Associates Degree in programming almost 2 years ago and I had a couple of excellent programmers who were not teachers.
As far as learning to code, I would recommend that you first take an elementary programming class that teaches structured programming; a class that will teach you the basics such as looping, branching, and iteration.
Good Luck

 

[MikeLacey]

VBStudent523,

What are the three programs you need to code? Let's take this a step at a time and see how far we get.

 

[Karl Blessing]

It all depends, what you want to do, I would hate to see you act like some of my students they get through maybe the first week of very basic Visual Basic, and they start wanting to jump ahead to C++, or some other complex things, or they say "How do I create a game like Quake", it's all natural responses, but there are a bunch of tutorials online, there are books in the stores(most targeted at beginners anyways) if you already have VB, you can even use the MSDN to get a general idea of how to start, and If I am not mistaken, there is a Learner's edition of VB. But like Mike says, gota take it one step at a time.

 

[Karl Blessing]

btw how much time do you have left? I may have some time over the weekend if you are into IRC or ICQ?(chat programs)