Learn VB in a weekend?
 

Hello everyone,

I need to learn VB in a week. Learn it to the best of my ability anyways. I do not have much programming experience. I have a job interview on Monday and this company usually have a few projects a week in VB. I very well told him that I have no VB experience but for some reason he seems confident I can pick it up easily. So I thinking it will be more of a maintenance programming type of thing.

If anyone could give me some sure fire resources to help prepare me for this Job that would be great! I would really really appreciate it. Help me get my first job ^^;

Thanks,
--Nate

I'd recommend two things:

1. www.google.com

2. http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Basic-2...e=UTF8&s=books


Deitel and Deitel is are excellent authors, I'm sure their VB book is great.

You really won't learn it in a weekend, no matter how successful your "How to Learn" thread was. If it doesn't bother your prospective employer, it might not matter. Good luck.

If you don't have much programming experience, give yourself about 3 months for basics of programming language, go through wikipedia, webopedia, answers.com, and etc... I learned java basics in about 3 months in a classroom, so it make sense that if you try hard and test yourself, you could pick up "basics" of VB in few months.

As a note, it is sometimes even harder to maintain a program then it would be to start one fresh.

Yes, I was fearful of this. We shall see what happens on Monday. Trying to learn as much as I can this weekend so I may be able to decipher the programs. Basically they are programs for data mining websites. What I think anyways, he called is scalping. Scalping like personal information off of websites. I assume they use this information to try to push their product on people...

The only reason I got the reference to this guy was because of my HTML work for the computer club at my school... I was expecting to maintain websites :/

Scraping! It's scraping!

When I learn Visual BASIC, I caught on really quicky but didnt have a clue about algorithms and different styles of programming. VB really doesnt require that when building small projects.

You could use one of those SAMS Teach yourself kindof books or use "Programming with Visual Basic 6.0" (the chapters on advance topics), by Anita Millspaugh, Julia C. Bradley.

I disagree somewhat. My current job involves mainly work with .NET and C#, a platform and language I was unfamiliar with before I was hired. However, I had little trouble working with it, as its rather similar to Java and C++, two languages which I do know.

Now, granted, learning a language over a weekend is a bit different than picking a language up as one goes along, but it is possible to learn a new language in a short space of time, provided that its similar to something you know already. For instance, if natefico is familiar with C#, and wants to learn VB.NET, then he's going to find it relatively easy. It all depends on how much natefico knows, and how much experience he has with learning new programming languages.

On the other hand, if he hasn't worked with anything similar before, or has a limited knowledge of programming languages, then maybe he's a bit stuck.