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can someone help me i want to start this programming

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Short, practical start-up advice for and anyone new to Visual Basic, tied to the replies already here.

Decide what you want to build first — desktop apps, web apps, or mobile — because that steers which VB path to learn. already hinted at that decision and posted some beginner tutorials that are useful as follow-up reading. 's enthusiasm is welcome; you'll need steady practice more than quick answers.

A simple, safe learning path:

  1. Install a current IDE (Visual Studio Community is the free full-featured option).
  2. Create a small Console App (VB) to learn syntax: variables, loops, conditions, procedures.
  3. Build a Windows Forms project to learn event-driven programming and the debugger.
  4. Try one small real project (calculator, simple to-do app that saves to a file, or a CSV contact list). Commit work to Git so you can track changes.

Notes and cautions: modern development uses VB.NET on the .NET platform; older VB6 code is legacy and needs migration tools to run on modern Windows. If you meant mobile when mentioned "vb4android", that is not the same as Visual Basic — there are BASIC-like tools for Android but they are separate ecosystems. For web work, VB can be used with ASP.NET, but many contemporary tutorials and libraries target C#, so expect more examples in C#.

Practical tips: use the debugger and breakpoints from day one, keep projects tiny and focused, read the official documentation for the exact .NET version your IDE targets, and practice by copying small examples and then changing them. If specific errors come up, post the exact error text and a short code snippet so replies can diagnose the problem quickly.

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Member Avatar for deceptikon

Yes.

commented: lmao, okie dokie. :) +12
Member Avatar for AndreRet

vb has a huge variety of options, vb4/5/6, vb.net, asp etc. Which line do you want to excel in, software, web dev etc. ?

Member Avatar for jhai_salvador

you can also add vb4android which also got BASIC syntax same like visual basic.

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