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Online resource to learn VB6
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There is no new application development in VB6. Microsoft does not support VB6 any more, they quit doing so in 2004 (I think). VB6 is gone as Dodo or COBOL.
There is some need for VB6 developers but only to support existing apps until they get we-written in some other language.
Why do you want to learn VB6?
---- Andy
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There is some need for VB6 developers but only to support existing apps until they get we-written in some other language.
Why do you want to learn VB6?
---- Andy
There is a great need for a sarcasm font.
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improve [...] programming skills" and 'which language to use' - those are two totally different issues. One can argue that PASCAL or FORTRAN can be used to teach programing skills, but do you really want to learn it using those two computer languages?
I would use something available to students even outside the classroom environment, like a VBA in Excel. You can learn a lot 'programming skills', and you can have it available at home to play with (as long as you have Office installed)
But that's just my opinion...
---- Andy
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I would use something available to students even outside the classroom environment, like a VBA in Excel. You can learn a lot 'programming skills', and you can have it available at home to play with (as long as you have Office installed)
But that's just my opinion...
---- Andy
There is a great need for a sarcasm font.
For student introduction to programming, it may make sense to select the environments/languages that are most accessible (don't teach Windows app development if the student does homework on a Mac or Linux system) and to check job postings to see which environments/languages are in highest demand. Mentions of VB6 on either list will be difficult to find.
How about Turtle Logo?![[bigsmile]](/data/assets/smilies/bigsmile.gif "[bigsmile] [bigsmile]")
How about Turtle Logo?
Nothing wrong with PASCAL. I, too, had my beginning of programming in class using PASCAL. Had learned spreadsheets on Lotus 1-2-3, operating system was DOS, wrote one program in COBOL (reveling my age here... 
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---- Andy
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)---- Andy
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Pascal (it was never PASCAL) was the first language I formally learned - but in reality in I learned to program with BASIC and 6502 machine code on an Ohio Superboard (well, the UK variant called the UK 101) about a year earlier. But the Pascal course did teach me better programming habits.
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I think we are forgetting the fact that BASIC stands for "Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code". So no reason to equate it with ForTran or Pascal when it comes to taking a language just to clear the programming concepts and logical flows. And in this perspective I think "improve [...] programming skills" and "which language to use" are correlated. Anyways, it's my opinion!
SaltyTheFrog
Programmer
There are a few I saw out there:
There were quite a few more if you search.
There were quite a few more if you search.
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JacquelineReeser
Programmer
Have a look here too
Nice tutorial, you can learn a lot, but also, unfortunately – you will get some misleading, incomplete, and sometimes wrong information, too.
Just one example:
where some people do assume: r and g are Integers, but in reality it is:
Some people may argue: "What's the difference...?", but if you want to learn, then do it the right way based on correct examples.
---- Andy
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Just one example:
Code:
Private Sub cmd_bgColor_Click()
Dim r, g, b As Integer
...where some people do assume: r and g are Integers, but in reality it is:
Code:
Private Sub cmd_bgColor_Click()
Dim r [red]As Variant[/red], g [red]As Variant[/red], b As Integer
...Some people may argue: "What's the difference...?", but if you want to learn, then do it the right way based on correct examples.
---- Andy
There is a great need for a sarcasm font.
>you will get some misleading, incomplete, and sometimes wrong information, too.
Quite a lot, it seems …
>where some people do assume: r and g are Integers
The author actually erroneously explicitly states this to be the case in later examples. And many, many, many of the examples make this error.
Still, better than nothing, I guess ...
Quite a lot, it seems …
>where some people do assume: r and g are Integers
The author actually erroneously explicitly states this to be the case in later examples. And many, many, many of the examples make this error.
Still, better than nothing, I guess ...
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