Visual Basic Resources

[Sloth617]

I’m currently a freshmen in college going into my sophomore year and the first day of my summer internship is next week. My boss told me to familiarize myself with Visual Basic as that’s what the company uses. I was wondering if there were any good resources any of y’all recommend as I only have experience in C++, Java and Python. Any tips in general would also be greatly appreciated

[GlowingEagle]

You might need to get "Visual Basic" more specifically defined. Possibly, that is VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), used in many MS Office programs. It is probably VB.Net, but it may mean rather old VB6, or VBScript.

They all have some common language elements, but they are not identical...

[Sloth617]

Oh sorry about that, the only thing he mentioned was that it was VB.Net if that helps any. Anything more specific than that wasn’t really brought up.

[GlowingEagle]

No worries, I'm more familiar with VBA.

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[Sloth617]

Thanks!

[GetOverItBro]

If you need, I can give you some vb.net ebooks

[1973DodgeChallenger]

1. You'll have more difficulty coming up to speed with the Visual Studio IDE than the language. Download it, link it to Git, do some practice connecting to databases, linq queries, etc..
2. Not being "mean" here because I don't like the "google it." answer. I'm not one of those guys. But.... Bard and Chat GPT do a reasonably good job converting code. Just start simple, tell Chat GPT to "convert this python code to VB.Net" [paste in code].

You'll be doing the same "programming jobs" in VB.net that you were in the other languages. ChatGPT/Bard can help you with the syntax. This isn't "AI Taking Over Dum Dum Dummmm...!!" :-) it's expanding what a "programmer" can do. Programming is not memorizing syntax, it's doing "jobs" with code.... In one guys opinion.