How do I start learning to program in Visual Basic and C++ ?

Where do I start off?

How do I start learning to program in Visual Basic and C++ ?
Get a book or search the internet for some step by step tutorials. You will also need a tool to write the code and compile your programs. Those you can google too. I am not sure if the compilers will be free but you can search for those.





The best books for programing are usually made by O'Reilly or Deitel.





With any program you always want to start of with something can be compiled and run. Whenever you make a change to the program, again compile and run the program to make sure that the changes you have made work.





There are some forums out there, also you can google those, which are there to help people who are struggling with a program.





I hope this helpls. Good Luck
Reply:For VB u can use www.MSDN.com or install MSDN in ur coputer, or in google search for Visual Basic tutorial or learn visual basic and same for C++ u will find lot many sites click on any and go... u can also buy books for beginners.. for searching books go to www.Amazon.com ... All the best and Wish u happy new year...
Reply:I'd say start with the Visual Basic programming as C++ isn't as forgiving or easy to begin with. Unfortunately you will have to purchase Visual Basic to be able to begin programming in it. You can buy a learning edition of the language which has some tutorials included to help you learn. Also this site can provide you with some tutorials on how to get started:


http://www.vbtutor.net/vbtutor.html


Remember learning to program requires patience and isn't very rewarding in the sense of most of your time is spent debugging with a few seconds of joy when something works. Good luck though and remember patience is the key.
Reply:as someone earlier said it is best to start with visual basic but if you are willing to try c++ then a good site would be cplusplus.com that is were I learned c++
Reply:For C++:





http://accu.org/index.php/book_reviews?u...


Book reviews. As you can see, many books fail miserably. I would consider for beginners C++ Primer by Lippman and Accelerated C++.





Get a compiler as well. Visual C++ Express or gcc/MinGW are free.





VB: You should learn VB.NET. Don't know of any good books, but I can tell you will need Microsoft's compiler. Get Visual Basic Express for free.