Use of Visual Basic 6 1

[redloh]

I program well in QB 4.5 as a scientist, not a programmer. I'm very logical so programming is fun and useful, but I found in a statistical program I wrote to measure statistically-increased animals with cancer (trend- and pair-wise tests such as the Fisher's) were somewhat difficult to code because number placement, number spacing, decimal point percision, etc. were not routine in this MicroSoft product. Except for beginner's Math in QB 4.5, I was out of luck.
This was my first program, but it does do a lot. It calulates dose-respose trends by 3 methods and also compares each response to no-dose controls by the Fisher Exact Method. It also plots the data on an x-y curve, but I could never determine how to write a driver; I printed the organized report to a file and let my word processor do the rest. MY QUESTIONS ARE: Is VB6 for me in updating this program? Should I turn to another language? Should I just ask one you to do it ?? (just kidding!!). Of what utility would VB6 be in writing a pharmacokinetic program with a lot math, graphs, and tables but that would run in the wonderful world of Bill Gates. If you do like VB6 for this, how can I get around spending 510.00$ for a store copy that generates executable files. This is 5x the stand alone editor edition which is $99. I need advice here folks and I have serious work to do protecting the country's air, water, and waste site areas.
I would like to become one of the brothern, but I wish to not waste my time on the wrong language and I do not wish to become a full programmer. My wife says I'm already a geek. Thanks, Redloh... [sig][/sig]

 

[Karl Blessing]

hehe, if you could do it with Qbasic, you can certainly do it better with Visual Basic, and it's easy so you wont have to learn to be a full pledge programmer, like you may have to do if you were using C++. [sig]<p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.com>kb244@kb244.com</a><br><a href=

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</a><br>Experienced in : C++(both VC++ and Borland),VB1(dos) thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, HTML, Visual InterDev 6(ASP(WebProgramming/Vbscript)<br>

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[Alt255]

If you liked QB45 you will probably love VB, if only for its graphical capabilities. Also, VB offers somewhat better precision with large numbers. The bad news is that VB doesn't offer very many built-in statistical functions (you will have to write your own, borrow some code or acquire some statistical controls (there are probably thousands of them available on the internet: why try to code a partial correlation when the work has already been done and can be integrated with your applications by clicking a mouse?). The good news is that the code you wrote in QB will probably port directly to VB.

I suggest that you put VB to a test.

&quot;Every experiment may be said to exist only in order to give the facts a chance of disproving the null hypothesis.&quot;

You will never know until you try.


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