Novice Programmer

[GameSnake]

Learn Python first!

[Quik]

Kinda posting in a dead topic?

[iago]

Useful advice is useful advice, no matter how old the topic is.

I tend to go by the rule of thumb, "Don't post in old topics unless you have something useful to add"

[AntiVirus]

Troop, if you want to learn VB then you will have to buy a book.  No one will teach you an entire language over the internet, that is just sucide.  If you need help finding books, I will be glad to help, but that's just all your going to be getting told.

[wires]

Or, you could just learn the language yourself.  I taught most of the stuff I know myself then bought a book later. :/

[iago]

It depends on the language.  It's easy to learn a language like VB or Pascal on the fly, they're designed to be easy (and useless..).  To learn a real language, I recommend a book.

I've read good things about "Thinking in Java" by Bruce Eckel.

[StaiN]

Indeed Books are the way to go. Tutorials are good aswell but I find myself getting drawn away from Tutorials cuz theres other things I could be doing on the Computer Pr0n jk.. Like IM's and stuff. So BOOKS DO IT.

[Joe]

Microsoft VisualBasic 3.0 Language Reference, which came with VB3, was my bible durring my learning process, but theres obviously a newer version out there somewhere. It was sufficient to teach myself VB6, but sometimes I had to improvise because of changes. Either way, I survived.

Also, I have MS VB3 Programmers Guide, but have yet to read it. I suppose its supposed to teach you coding habits. If so, avoid it
EDIT: Programmers Guide teaches you how to use the IDE. That was a 3 second crash course for me.

[GameSnake]

Well let's see, I learned almost all I know about Python and Lisp from the provided support and provided links to support from the authors website's,  but then again, as pointed out by iago, easier languages are easier to learn on the fly.