I'm not super experienced with coding, I've done a little bit with Python, but I understand that's not quite the most helpful thing. Professionally, I need to learn Visual Basic, and I'm not sure where to start.
Anyone have a good suggestion?
I haven't touched a BASIC dialect since QBasic, but general a good way to learn a language with a lot of infrastructure behind it is to pick up a book (yes, a printed book) that people who use that language approve of, read it, then write some toy but not-entirely-trivial programs with it. I like little roguelikes and OpenGL toys for that purpose, but pick a program you've written before because the point is to figure out the best way to write it in your new language, not to tackle both a new language and a new problem.
Brings back memories. My first assignment of my first programming class in college (and I'm a novice now--at that time I didn't really even know what computer code was) I made a street craps game. Still the most fun program I've ever written....write some toy but not-entirely-trivial programs with it.
Ah, you want Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA. The VBA language is similar to VB, but it's designed for working within programs, like Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel. Here's an Access VBA book and Here's a tutorial. I definitely recommend looking into specifically VBA. It's more directly applicable to what you want to do in Access. That said, Access supports a limited version of SQL, which I highly recommend over VBA, if at all possible. SQL will get you much farther, both in Access and the rest of the database world. Here's a tutorial on SQL in Access. Though any generic SQL tutorial should be fine. You just have to be aware Access doesn't have some of the more complex SQL commands. Also, if you're writing an external program to get data from Access, most programming languages have Access libraries. Here's a Python ODBC library (ODBC can talk to Access), and here's a C# tutorial.
Yeah, I've used it. And ew. But I took a class on it. If you haven't done much programming I recommend getting a book that goes over the basics really well. I used this for a class and it has a lot of really good examples in the back that you have to make. It really nails in the basics. It seemed like a really good book for beginners. But I kind of just googled my way through things since I'd been coding for so long I really just needed the syntax. Edit: Sorry for my weird link placement. Took me a while to find it...
I think a book would be the best for VB. Not a whole lot of resources detailing it nowadays.
Like someone else said, sounds like VBA not VB. I took a VBA class in school and probably only read each page of the required material once. When I got stuck I always found a better explination and path to a solution off the internet. Have you been hired as a coder or do they just want you to be able to run applications in VBA?
If you have any choice or any flexibility you'll get more mileage from learning C# instead if VB .NET. There are much more options for learning C# than VB.NET. You'll also need to understand the .NET framework. If I were you I'd seriously consider paying for a month or two at Pluralsight and binge watching their VB.NET Fundamentals course and some of the introductory .NET courses.
Lol I do. I mean we're talking the 10
I think I'm wrong and talking about qbasic?
Stuff right? I mean it's been a while but I coded in it, hahahaha. It's not fair really to call it coding in my opinion. Kind of like I feel about basic html. (Don't shit on me, I'm sure html can get way more complicated than I know and I acknowledge it, but there's never been anything I needed to do with html that I couldn't look up on the Internet super-easy). 20
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