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Just would like to make a comment on my experience on this site. As a brand new programming student, when I ask for help, I truly need it. My professor is lousy at teaching and the book we use is hard to understand. I have absolutely no programming experience other than this class. The professor reads her power point presentation in a monotone voice and won't answer questions because she has too many slides to get through. The slides really do not help with the project.

One of your "Silver" level responders told me he would fail me. I find that comment totally offensive and do not feel he should even bother to respond if he is not going to give constructive advice. If someone knows of a website or a book or both that would help me understand the language of Visual Basic better and how to code and how to translate code, I would not have to ask what you senior programmers feel are stupid questions.

Cheers and have a great day because you just rained on my day.

Posted 16-Nov-09 6:48am

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AspDotNetDev · Answer 1 · 2009-11-17T13:11:00

Sounds like you aren't looking for specific advice but for general tools so that you can take your education into your own hands. This is a very good thing, because the best programmers have a passion to do so and spend a lot of time outside of class to learn their craft. My first language was technically Visual Basic, but I didn't like it at the time so I used QuickBasic instead (I wouldn't recommend that for you, as times have changed since then). As it was a beginner course in high school, my teacher seemed perfectly OK with this (guess my teacher was a little nicer than yours). That all being said, I'd suggest you hone your Googling skills. A good starting point would be to search for "Visual Basic tutorial". This seems like a good starting point:

http://cuinl.tripod.com/tutorials.htm

The first tutorial says:

"This Tutorial is for completely beginners with Visual Basic. It will teach you right from the very start, how to make your first program in Visual Basic."

That sounds like what you want. Also, I'm not sure which version of Visual Basic you're working with, but I suggest you download the latest and greatest to work with it. You can download the (free) Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/Default.aspx

DaveAuld · Answer 2 · 2009-11-16T10:38:00

Scamperdoodle,

Just because you think your techer is lousy, doesn't mean you have to be a lousy learner.

I have learnt alot without anybodies help. Too many people nowadays want everything laid on plate in front of them, instead of getting up of their backsides and putting in a little effort.

As for your disappointment at a one of the other members responses, get over it. Its all part of the learning process.

Oakman · Answer 3 · 2009-11-16T13:29:00

Hey Scamp,

It's a pain when someone misunderstands an honest request, especially if all you wanted was to be pointed in the right direction. At the same time, "Silver," may have just spent twenty minutes pointing someone else in the right direction only to be given a 1-vote because the questioner just wanted cut and paste code to hand in to his teacher under his own name.

There are lots of good books and articles on various aspects of VB. Many of em right here on CP. There are some excellent blogs, too. So maybe you could be more specific. What are your goals? Do you want to be a programmer, or just get through the class with a B+ or better? What tools are you working with - do you have Visual Studio or just the express versions? What are you having problems with? Object orientation? The jargon?

Scamperdoodle · Answer 4 · 2009-11-17T12:33:00

Oakman, Thank you for the positive response. I am a first year student with little to no computer experience in the past. My goal is to become a computer programmer. My uncle told me that if I don't get this course down, it will be downhill sailing hereafter. I don't understand the lingo, don't understand how to read the codes, and can't find any really good references to use. I have been swamped with classes and trying to keep up and it gets really difficult when you don't understand. To be honest with you, this has been a really hard class because there is no real direction given to us and the book really doesn't explain it well. I have been a 4.0 student in the past, and am carrying a 4.0 in this class, but it has been rough going, and has taken lots of work. No, I don't want someone to do the assignment for me, I just want to be pointed in the right direction. The assignment has actually been totally redone, and now I just have an issue with a Sub my teacher wants and I don't understand where or why. I am just looking for a good reference book, or we b site or whatever to help me understand all this better.

Scamp

Christian Graus · Answer 5 · 2009-11-17T15:52:00

Hey guys, FYI, this is plainly not a question, so it's in the wrong place to start with ( the lounge seems like a good place ). There's also a forum at the bottom of the post, which can be used to post something other than an answer. this is starting to turn into a conversation, which is surely not what this part of the site is for. To the OP - we are flooded all too often with people asking us to do their homework. The person who said they would fail you, said that they would fail you for bad naming conventions. He was trying to point out that it's good to use intelligent variable names. courses nowadays are retarded, why are you doing winforms before you know VB ? Things like format strings, this is far too complex for a first assignment. You also posted a ton of auto generated code that is empty. It seems to me that if you really want to learn, you should buy a good book and learn some basics so you can catch up with your course. If you were to post more streamlined code and more specific questions, I suspect you'd like the answers better. Surely you can work out how to multiply the cost by the number of items and can see that
num = CInt(mtxtItemNum.Text)
num = mtxtItem2Num.Text
num = mtxtItem3Num.Text
is useless because the first two values of num are never used ?

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