Visual Basic class
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hitchicken
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You didn't get a flood of responses so allow me to interject with just IMHO.
There are a ton of free tutorials, examples, classes and samples on online with a simple Google search. A few of the better ones online are low cost. I would suggest this route... to learn something very important.... whether you really have a 'knack' for programming.
Coding is one of those inherent skills you either possess or you don't. Some people can pick up a violin and play well in a short time. Some never will no matter how long they practice. Many abilities just come naturally for certain personality types and all the formal classes in the world aren't going to correct that. So before you go laying down a wad of cash for classes, you might want to see if you can get immersed in coding and enjoy it. Some hackers, geeks are so obsessed with ones and zeros they forget to eat & drink. Lately, many logic computers are generating years of code in minutes automatically. That's the kind of competition you will be facing.
Go the free route and see how it feels first, then decide.
There are a ton of free tutorials, examples, classes and samples on online with a simple Google search. A few of the better ones online are low cost. I would suggest this route... to learn something very important.... whether you really have a 'knack' for programming.
Coding is one of those inherent skills you either possess or you don't. Some people can pick up a violin and play well in a short time. Some never will no matter how long they practice. Many abilities just come naturally for certain personality types and all the formal classes in the world aren't going to correct that. So before you go laying down a wad of cash for classes, you might want to see if you can get immersed in coding and enjoy it. Some hackers, geeks are so obsessed with ones and zeros they forget to eat & drink. Lately, many logic computers are generating years of code in minutes automatically. That's the kind of competition you will be facing.
Go the free route and see how it feels first, then decide.
PeoplesElbow
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I would just find a decent book, about 5 years ago I bought one called VBA for Excel and I can do many things with VBA now.
In college we had classes on C++, Java, Ada, Fortran but nothing on Visual Basic, many programmers don't even consider it a real language. Personally I think most number crunching that they want to teach students would have been better handled with it than trying to teach them Fortran or C++ right off the bat.
In college we had classes on C++, Java, Ada, Fortran but nothing on Visual Basic, many programmers don't even consider it a real language. Personally I think most number crunching that they want to teach students would have been better handled with it than trying to teach them Fortran or C++ right off the bat.
I've had both fortran and C++ years ago, I've just started writing macros in VBA and was finding it much easier than either of those. The company I work for doesn't have any problem paying for classes and they're good places for bouncing ideas around when you get stuck. I've just been recording macros and tweaking them right now, but I'd like to get to the point of starting to write the code from scratch.
PeoplesElbow
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VBA and Visual Basic are 99.5% the same, VBA is a bit reduced in capability but it is easier to find books for Visual Basic.
10+ years ago back when the government actually had training I took a visual basic class at the Frank Knox building.
10+ years ago back when the government actually had training I took a visual basic class at the Frank Knox building.