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Originally posted by Brian
a Calculator would be a great practice!
that's quite complex for a beginner.
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Originally posted by chris100
what would be a simple program to do for a starter user of visual basic?
make a window and put a button on it. Make that when you click that button, the windows closes and the program ends.
From that, go adding controls, and play with the properties of them: its caption, its placement and size, etc... Get used to the properties of the main controls: buttons, labels, textboxes, radio buttons and checkboxes. Use the help (F1) to learn how to change those properties from the code.
Learn how to do functions and subs. How to pass arguments to them and the difference between ByVal and ByRef. Learn how to manage several windows (forms). Create modules with functions you call from the code of the forms. [edit]Learn the msgbox, instr, etc... functions; ie: the basic functions predefined by vb[/edit]
Start learning some basic Windows API functions. Understand what they are and how to declare, call and use them. Learn how to make classes in VB. try to use them.
Each paragraph is a big step into the learning curve of VB. Don't try to learn all that in one day. It requieres a lot of time. Most of what you have to learn is in the online help (press F1 in VB). If you haven't ever programed in any language, you should know the basics about programing: how to do algorithms, etc...
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