Best plalce to learn programming language such as VB.Net?

Can anyone please advice me on where would be the best place to train up in VB.net? College? Uni course? Computeach? Learn Direct? On your own through reading books? the internet? or somewhere else?





Ideally I feel a good tutorial software would be best. Does anyone know where I can get hold of something like this?





Where do most programmers who did not grauate in a computer related discipline get their skills from? I can never find an employer willing to train you up.





I have worked for five years in VB6 then took three years out and wish to return to the world of programming. But technology has moved on. VB6 is dead and replaced by VB.net. HELP!

Best plalce to learn programming language such as VB.Net?
I have just completed my bachelor's in computer science at WMU and they had only one elective for VB.NET. Mostly it was C# or C/C++. I know if you go into CIS, you learn more VB.NET. But I feel there is not much sense in attending a university for one language... Although you will definitely learn all the concepts, probably far more then what you want to learn ;-)





I would recommend going and picking up a good VB.NET book and just code along with it. Coding yourself is the number one way to learn the syntex, method calls and so on.





Online you will also find a number of really good sources. While I will not point to individual sites, I recommend just performing a search on"Beginners VB.NET Tutorials" or something along those lines. Another site to look at would be Microsoft's Developer Network http://www.msdn.microsoft.com





While VB.NET incorporates the .NET framework I am confident that you will soon feel right at home once you get going. Microsoft kept a lot from VB6.





So my recommendation to you is: Unless you are trying to get a degree of some sorts (which can never hurt), just stick to learning via online tutorials or by books. There are tons of resources out there for you. And the more hands on training you do like following examples, the faster you will learn. You always got us on here to help you too :-)





Personal Opinion: If I were you I might avoid learning VB.NET and focus on C# and Java as these two languages are becoming the languages of choice. While VB.NET and C#.NET both use the .NET Framework, I feel C# is for sure a better all around language. Also once you learn C# you will have a good understanding of the .NET Framework and will be able to easily apply your past knowledge in VB6 and pickup VB.NET.





Hope this helps.
Reply:First off, C# syntex is much cleaner then VB .NET. Both languages have their advantages over one another. If you go to a search engine and search for a comparison you will find many results that compare both. I do have some bias, I program in C++ and Java, and C# resembles both (to some extent). Report It


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