What programming scripts would you recommend knowing for visual basic .net? for a beginner?

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What programming scripts would you recommend knowing for visual basic .net? for a beginner?

Answer 1

I agree with the first answerer about learning c#. Visual Basic.Net and c# have the same features. Only VB.Net is an offering for old-school Visual Basic programmers that wanted to move to the .Net platform. Many of those programmers have converted to c#.

I started with Visual Basic.Net about six years, but I switched to c# within a year.

Why should you learn C# instead of VB.Net:

1. You essentially get Java, too. C# is essentially the same as Java, but with some different language innovations (LINQ for SQL like queries). 2 for 1 is always better than 1 for 1.

2. The C# community is larger and there are more resources for it.

3. C# is the flagship language of the .Net platform, which means that it will have more support for as long as .NEt exists.

4. If you ever want to learn c++ or c, c# is a derivative of those languages. They would look much more familiar to you than VB.Net.

5. For whatever reason, there are more job openings for C# programmers.

Answer 2

I don't recommend that you learn basic at all.  Learn C#, it's not that difficult.  After learning C#, go ahead and mess with flash AS3, and JavaScript.  C# is a c-based language, and many popular languages nowadays will have very simliar syntax.  In essence, when you're learning C#, you're also learning Java, ActionScript, JavaScript, and even C/C++.  When you learn basic... ehm....

ActionScript 3.0 is very close to JavaScript.  Flash is incredible, it will help you learn OOP concepts incredibly quickly.

After you've mastered C# to an OOP level, you can learn any other language very quickly.  The reason is because all of the best languages will use OOP, and the concept of OOP is universal across all languages.

I hope that helps, good luck on your pursuit.  Don't ever give up!!