Can I learn Visual basic without programing background?

Which r the esential languages i should learn to learn visual basic.

Can I learn Visual basic without programing background?
Actually Visual Basic is designed just for Beginner's. Basic stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.





There are millions of different Basic lanuages out there and Visual Basic is one of them. Others I like are DarkBasic or BlitzBasic designed just for games.





I recommend Visual Basic for beginners because you will find alot more stuff on the web to help you with it then any other Basic language(it's the most used Basic).





Edit* You DO not need to know how to program in order to learn Visual Basic. Thats is a lie and jumping in lanuages like C/C++ first will just confuse you. I recommend you learn Basic which will teach you the fundementals of programming so you can later master lanuages that are cryptic in syntex like C/C++
Reply:VB is a good starter.. And it can do some fairly powerful things..





Even twiddle bits.. :P You forget PEEK and POKE my good sir.. LOL
Reply:Learn C and C++. Visual Basics has its uses also. The reason it exists is for people to create fast programs and test or debug things. Most people will not be making software with VB and it's mostly used for testing because of how fast you can build a program that would be much more complicated if it was written in C or C++.
Reply:Visual basic is a great first language because it is very forgiving as far as programming languages go. In about an hour you can be up and creating simple calculation programs using VB. There are many great tutorials on the web that can help you get started. Just make sure you know which version of VB you are using. The older VB6 is much simpler than the newer VB.NET 2005. There really arent any languages to learn before VB because it is so simple. However, it can be a very powerful language. Good luck.
Reply:Almost everyone starts to learn something new without former experience in the specific new area.





VB is not an exception. Moreover: VB has been designed as some RAD environment especially for people who do not know and do not want to know anything of programming.





On the other hand, when you will feel that VB dos not allow you to do some tricky things, you can use Win32 API calls from it and gain almost full command on Windows programming (i do not mention VB.NET and .NET as a whole: if you write in .NET, you are a .NET prisoner...).
Reply:Any programming language can be learned, but starting from the ground up is your best bet.





It isn't necessarily the language itself that is difficult to learn, but HOW the language works. There is logical flow involved, and to think critically to see all endpoints and flow takes time itself to learn.





I had BASIC first, then HTML, ASP, SQL, and then VB.





Depending on how quickly you pick things up, you may or may not need to know anything first.
Reply:Unlike most of the other people responding to your question, I do not believe VB is a "child's language" or only for beginners. I've been a professional programmer for almost 30 years, and have found that VB is a very powerful yet easy-to-use language that is appropriate for beginners and professionals alike. What VB does NOT give you is the ability to twiddle the bits and bytes, but who needs that???
Reply:For learning Visaul Basic you must have atleast basic programmin language background for that i would like to suggest you must take C in your hand as a basic programming language which will helpful to you in future
Reply:Everybody has to start somewhere - we all started without a programming background!





VB is the most simple, child-like language going - if you learn another language before VB you might as well ignore VB as whatever you just learnt is probably going to be more powerful!
Reply:Visual Basic is the perfect language for beginner for windows programming. You can start learning without any other programming knowledge.

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