[HackFourmIsHelpful]

So my school is teaching us visual basic 2010, we got the visual basic 2008 book, but it's useless on teaching stuff, pretty much only shows how to do programs and tell's you nothing on learning. I am intresting in learning visual basic and was wondering if there is any good books that are free that I should look at to learn it better.

[Hawk HF]

Believe it or not, this forum can actually be a good place to learn. If you ever run into a problem that you can't solve, post it here and we'll do what we can to help.

As far as book reccommendations go, I don't have much advice for you. I believe that the best way to learn is by doing. Try coding your own little programs for fun using things that you're studying in school.

[He B TeMy]

I really can't recall any good books to learn vb.net, there's good .NET books (MSIL & stuff) but vb.net or c# besides the 'c# in depth' series, and overall c# has more books, but it's about specific stuff within the language, not that many about the language itself afaik.

[Vector.A+]

Watch the learning vb.net video series on safaribooks online or check sams teach yourself VB 2015 in 24 hours

[markzuckerberg]

This forum is better than any book, just surf in this section.. and read sources.
You'll be able to write a book after that lol SELFTESTED 🤝

[Illusionisten]

Forums and MSDN is providing more than any book.

[+Haze]

This forum is better than any book, just surf in this section.. and read sources.
You'll be able to write a book after that lol SELFTESTED 🤝

Only a handful of members really know what they're doing. This section is NOT better than any book. If anything, anyBook > thisSection...

Oh and sources I've seen on this section are shocking. Not worth learning from. I wouldn't even recommend learning from the older tutorials I've written myself. The best place to learn from would be a popular certified book, real life experience e.g. School/Uni, not a forum full of 14 y/o. I mean this forum is helpful don't get me wrong, but the help provided isn't always the best practise.

[Illusionisten]

Only a handful of members really know what they're doing. This section is NOT better than any book. If anything, anyBook > thisSection...

Oh and sources I've seen on this section are shocking. Not worth learning from. I wouldn't even recommend learning from the older tutorials I've written myself. The best place to learn from would be a popular certified book, real life experience e.g. School/Uni, not a forum full of 14 y/o. I mean this forum is helpful don't get me wrong, but the help provided isn't always the best practise.

Not like Uni is healthy either, went there for a while but just got fed up when they always spoke like we had some kind of disorder which made it impossible to use common sense.

[+Haze]

Not like Uni is healthy either, went there for a while but just got fed up when they always spoke like we had some kind of disorder which made it impossible to use common sense.

Lol I agree. When I mentioned uni I really mean the experience you gain from taking on real life projects for a real client. You know them end of year projects. Yeah, I'd say I learn the most during my time at coding during my last year of college when I had to write a real life project for a real life client as part of my course. It's the experience you gain that's the key.

[HackFourmIsHelpful]

Thank you for the comments, I actually believe myself that doing is better then reading, I was just wondering if there was a good way. However maybe ill try to make some fun programs, and if I need help prob ask on the forum.

[Sewn]

I personally am not a fan of using Visual Basic, so I use Visual Studio. There isn't a huge difference, but anyway, this forum is an excellent place to learn. If you need to ask a question, just post it here, and within a couple minutes to hours, you will have an answer usually explaining in detail what you needed to know.