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Date Posted: 02:01:37 08/30/02 Fri
Author: Douglas Thomson
Subject: Visual BASIC - the reports of its demise.....
In reply to: Richie 's message, "VB.Net" on 21:42:19 08/29/02 Thu

The reports of Visual BASIC's demise have been greatly exaggerated. True, the VB.net upgrade is a move forwards, but consider this - BASIC is still used in many quarters, and how many years has that been out? Just because a new version of something is doing the rounds does not mean that what you are learning now is useless - if anything, it will provide a good, solid basis for your programming knowledge, and you will be able to use it (and the discipline of planning and thinking like a programmer) to further your studies of other fields. VB, Richard, is no more useless than any other method of programming currently in use at the moment - just because VB.net is on the go it does not mean that the world en masse is going to abandon a relatively cheap, effective, efficient and near-universal cross-platform development environment overnight. People still use Dreamweaver 3 when it has been superceded by version 4 and later, MX. I even know someone who uses an old Macintosh LCIII, which I think is older than some people I know. They have all since been superceded, but you can still do superb work on them that will put you in demand for employers.

As for the Learning Library no longer offering the Visual BASIC course - I will check when I go in tomorrow, but I have heard nothing of this so far - enrolments continue to come in for the VB course as recently as the past few days. I also received a leaflet through my door yesterday, and the VB6 course is listed on it as normal. As I said, I will double check to be sure, but as far as I am aware, the VB course is still being offered by Learning Library.

One thing I do not need to double check, however, is the fact that the course and what you are learning is still relevant and is still useful to you - you will be able to approach a problem like a programmer, will have programming experience using an excellent development environment, you will be able to better come to grips with other programming languages (since many of the underlying concepts will already be clear to you) and you will be able to use to a fairly advanced level the single most common programming environment currently on the planet: the degree of market support and demand for VB applications will not vanish tomorrow - put simply, it has proven to be far too useful for it to vanish so quickly. VB6 may have been upgraded to VB.net, but it will be with us for a long long time - and so will the demand for people who know how to use it.

I will post here tomorrow to let you know what I find about the Learning Library and the VB course.

Regards, all

Douglas

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Replies:

VB.Net -- Richie, 14:29:13 08/30/02 Fri
- VB6 v VB.net, seconds out, round two.......... -- Douglas, 16:01:04 08/30/02 Fri
  - VB.net versus VB truce -- Richie, 19:49:01 08/30/02 Fri
    - VB6 availability -- Steve Morrison, 23:59:11 08/30/02 Fri