learn visual basic -- 1, introduction

my brother injured his leg this holiday and had 18 stiches. and poor me, stucked to him for the rest of december. had couldn't walk around in the streets. why must i suffer with him? nevermind about that personal stuff (althoug it's him that i started writing this article)...so i am going to embark on this visual basic journey with you. hang on.

there are two types of visual basic(VB). one is VB and the other is VBA or visual basic for applications, which is installed in microsoft office suite. you can go to microsoft powerpoint, tools>macros>visual basic editor, that is VBA. for VB, you will have to edit in in it's IDE (integrated developement environment), the VB6 IDE. what's IDE then? it is like microsoft word, which allows you to write you documents and print etc.. VB IDE works the same. it allows you to write codes, then compile into excutable programs.

in my "learn visual basic" series, i'll talk about universal codes for VBA and VB. seriously, my articles are not complete, but are going to build the fundamental elements for programming knowledge. i started with VB first, i think you should too. my articles are solely for those who have never programmed before...see how good i am. however...i cannot guarantee that every single thing in the articles are accurate. because there may be grammer and spelling mistakes. or even when your version of VB is different from mine. so please comment in the forum, thanks.

the core part of VB programming, or rather scripting, is the changing of properties of the objects in program itself. other important topics, which are also similar to other programming languages, include variables, arrays, operators, functions and modules. so be prepared to stay for long if you want to learn more.

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