Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991)

Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) by nomel on Thursday September 10, 2020 @04:26PM (#24436237)

My favorite part about Visual Basic was the help files. They were absolutely great for someone learning to code. From what I remember, there was a snippet of example code for basically everything.

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Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) by anakaine on Friday September 11, 2020 @12:00AM (#24439072)

This is how I learned to code. Ot was excellent. Its been very hard over the course of my career to learn other non basic languages, and I attribute it largely to those help files being so good that it became my first and main language.

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Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) by ranqet on Friday September 11, 2020 @05:08PM (#24447333)

Had the same experience. First language I learned was VB and felt like I had to learn programming all over again when moving on.

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Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) by nomel on Friday September 11, 2020 @06:44PM (#24448092)

I learned basic first, then microcontroller ASM, which made C just kinda make sense when I went to it.

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