Have been taught Pascal in class the last two years, now studying the Scottish 'Advanced Higher' course in Computing and need to do a programming project. Would rather create a simple GUI based program in VB - all I have ever done in VB though are simple tutorials. I know the basic amount of Pascal that I can churn out a variety of command based programs with ease. What would be the most productive/simple way of moving to VB?
Are you required to use VB? C# would be much more useful and it can be developed using the same IDE (Visual Studio).
You should create a interface in Visual Basic to hack their mainframe.
No, but seriously. Learn C# if you can.
It's mainly speed of learning, I don't have long to have a completed project so I'm guessing it would be far quicker to move to VB than C#, right?
[QUOTE=Funny;32109397]It's mainly speed of learning, I don't have long to have a completed project so I'm guessing it would be far quicker to move to VB than C#, right?[/QUOTE]
Not really, to me C# syntax and all that stuff is much more logical and easy to remember.
Nobody really uses VB nowadays that we have C#
ITT: It isn't C style don't learn it! It is an inferior language!
Move to either Java or any .Net language. VC++, C#, or VB.Net. They're standardized ( will compile down to nearly identical code given they are CLR ), and will run on any compatible platform - Windows installs with the proper .Net Framework installed, or any OS that can run a compatible version of Mono.
If you don't want to use a CLR language, Java is still a choice - most decent IDEs should have a form designer as part of it.
Which really should be your main goal - any language that supports being form-driven and that you can find a form-designer as part of an IDE.
[QUOTE=Kogitsune;32120890]C# ... [is] standardized[/QUOTE]
Except for C# 3 and 4.
[QUOTE=Kogitsune;32120890]ITT: It isn't C style don't learn it! It is an inferior language!
Move to either Java or any .Net language. VC++, C#, or VB.Net. They're standardized ( will compile down to nearly identical code given they are CLR ), and will run on any compatible platform - Windows installs with the proper .Net Framework installed, or any OS that can run a compatible version of Mono.
If you don't want to use a CLR language, [b]Java is still a choice - most decent IDEs should have a form designer as part of it.[/b]
Which really should be your main goal - any language that supports being form-driven and that you can find a form-designer as part of an IDE.[/QUOTE]
NetBeans has a form designer, but I prefer eclipse, its much more clean and afaik there is a plugin for form designing
I would say, that you shouldn't plan on going far with it. The skills don't transfer as easily to other languages like C style ones.
Skills transfer very easily - once you actually understand programming, it is simply a matter of learning the syntax of the desired language.
A class is a class in all languages that are object oriented. A structure, and a function are also extremely similar if not the same across all languages.
If you learn a language and can't port the concept of polymorphism to a second language, that really isn't the first language's fault.
[QUOTE=Funny;32109397]It's mainly speed of learning, I don't have long to have a completed project so I'm guessing it would be far quicker to move to VB than C#, right?[/QUOTE]
Yes, VB is easier to learn than C#, but once you get past the basics vb (.net) starts to get more difficult to use (correctly) and c# stays about the same.
[QUOTE=phazmatis;32125289]Yes, VB is easier to learn than C#, but once you get past the basics vb (.net) starts to get more difficult to use (correctly) and c# stays about the same.[/QUOTE]
Do you actually have anything to back that up? VB.Net is extremely easy to use "correctly" and stays about the same - what with how they're both CLR languages have have nearly identical feature sets.
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