john Wesley

is there anybody here willing to give advice about VB, im currently doing a course ( IT for Practitioners Software Development & Design ) though just starting here and not really done much coding im trying my darnest to teach myself VB6 at home also with the help of e-books, source code and greatly appreciated forum replies, but other than asking here for something specific that i can use, memorise and learn i would like to know just what a people's general views are about programming and what they think is helpful in moving forward when using VB. also am i wasting my time with VB6 when there is .NET
Thanks a bunch for any replies, they shall be thoroughly read.