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teaching people to code in vb


rct

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I'm not sure you're still looking for an answer to this since it was asked so long ago, but in case somebody needs to know, I"ll still post this. I know a couple of people that started programming in college as online courses and they all started with Visual Basic. I tried it, too, and am now able to progress to other languages fairly easily. One of the best ways to really learn a language, though, is to get active on a programming forum. Vbforums.com really helped me out a lot, and as the name says it's just a visual basic forum.

 

If someone has some programming experience, they may want to start in C because there are so many similar languages; I just find it somewhat more difficult than Visual Basic.

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What would be the program should i teach them first?

Why, "Hello World!", of course. ;)

 

rct, first I would teach them how to make a program, and it's components ie. Loops, statements, functions, etc.

Joe's right, teach them the theory and logic behind what they're doing before they actually touch any code.

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Try to explain more on the philosophy behind programming.

That would attract interest of students.

 

For me, I would prefer my lecturer tells me more stories out of the book, e.g. history of programming

and also how programmers developed those built-in functions.

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