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Summary: Used By More Developers Worldwide Than Any Other Language
Review: Basic has been maligned by developers for many years, and in the early days it deserved it. However in version Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft's has created a very capable platform for building robust and mission critical enterprise level software systems. Not only is Visual Basic relatively easy to learn when compared to C++, Java, Perl, etc, you create serious software with Visual Basic. What's more, Visual Basic has spawned a *huge* third party market for software components that can greatly reduce the time it takes to build software. How do I know? In 1994 I founded VBxtras, "The #1 Source of Tools for Visual Basic Developer's Worldwide."... With its ease of learning, its robust architecture, and its tremendous number of available third party components, you can easily see why Visual Basic is one of *the* best choices for building software solutions in the new millennia.
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Summary: DLL's A Snap In Visual Basic
Review: DLL's written in Visual Basic instead of C++ actually run faster, much faster, especially mathematically-oriented stuff! This has been backed up by tests! VB is incredible, incredible, incredible!
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Summary: SUPER
Review: I have been studying Visual Basic Programming for three hours a day for 6 weeks and i love Visual Basic.... it is an IDE Programming language and when I first tried this..... i just gasped.... i couldn't belive what i could do in this ..... i recommned this to all programmers.... professionals and amateurs! OK maybe some people have said to you that this programming language sucks... that it's only for kids...... but they are microsoft haters they all use Linux cause Microsoft overcharges everything! VB is a great language......
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Summary: Great and easy to use even for beginners
Review: I just started programming this year in high school. I started with Q-Basic and have since moved onto Visual Basic 6.0. WOW! The program is awesome and fun to use. I have been saving up money to buy it and just recently purchased it to use at home. I would tell anyone interested in buying it to go for it. It is well worth the price.
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Summary: Installs just fine. But does not scale well
Review: If nothing else this product loads well. I loaded it on windows 2000 with the minimum effort. I picked all custom choices just to see what was included. When it finished loading all the goodies. There is a lot of boasting on the box and on the screen during loading. There is an online manual that can be loaded. I now have this on my system with visual studio (never heard or this until it was dropped on my desk.)
Because Visual basic is restricted for use on toys, my mission is to convert an application to various environments and systems. They hired some kid for the initial application and all he knew was VB. I usually stay away from such restricted environments so I will need to learn just enough to convert it to "C" and maybe just some sort of SQL. If I can figure out how to break the objects down to an assembly level them VB may be good to keep incase we do have a use for toy environments. Right now it is awfully bulky and hard to fine tune for communications! applications that will require 400+ users.
Anyway so far I am having no problems with the product its self and therefore I have to give it the five stars for ease of installation and not messing up the environment. Then I need to take at least one away for lack of portability.
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Summary: The best second programming language to learn
Review: If you are getting into programming, I would absolutely recommend Visual Basic be the second language you learn. Before this, though, buy the book "SAMS Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours." You will learn a LOT from this book, and you will attain a mastery of the QBASIC programming language. QBASIC is the base of Visual Basic, so VB will come surprisingly easy to you. I'm going to be starting to learn C++ soon, and polish my JavaScript soon after. How old am I? Why, I just turned 14. (I told you this was easy!) With VB6, you will be making professional-looking Windows applications in no time!
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Summary: The best second programming language to learn
Review: If you are getting into programming, I would absolutely recommend Visual Basic be the second language you learn. Before this, though, buy the book "SAMS Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours." You will learn a LOT from this book, and you will attain a mastery of the QBASIC programming language. QBASIC is the base of Visual Basic, so VB will come surprisingly easy to you. I'm going to be starting to learn C++ soon, and polish my JavaScript soon after. How old am I? Why, I just turned 14. (I told you this was easy!) With VB6, you will be making professional-looking Windows applications in no time!
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Summary: The best second programming language to learn
Review: If you are getting into programming, I would absolutely recommend Visual Basic be the second language you learn. Before this, though, buy the book "SAMS Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours." You will learn a LOT from this book, and you will attain a mastery of the QBASIC programming language. QBASIC is the base of Visual Basic, so VB will come surprisingly easy to you. I'm going to be starting to learn C++ soon, and polish my JavaScript soon after. How old am I? Why, I just turned 14. (I told you this was easy!) With VB6, you will be making professional-looking Windows applications in no time!
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Summary: Awesome
Review: One of the easiest to learn and funest programming languages! The possibilites are endless with this sofware! A definate for any programmer.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: One of the easiest to learn and funest programming languages! The possibilites are endless with this sofware! A definate for any programmer.
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