By the way... I'm not sure learning VB will help you much in the future.
You could start with Java or C wich are more serioud programming languages, also mor difficult, btw
I think, to follow the path of HTML you could try it with PHP. Wich is very easy, it is Object Orientated like C and Java and you will have much success easily
Well, my personal suggestion.
Otherways, VB is more useful for building applications and it's rather easy. But jumping from VB to VisualC++ (the visual brother of C++, like Pascal and Delphi) is hard, better the other way: VC++ to VB.