Need to learn VB over the summer - need advice.

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I am currently teaching BTEC IT at a Sixth Form College and have set myself the challenge of learning to code over the summer hols. I am away in a remote area of Sweden for 4 weeks over the summer, with no or limited internet access, and will have with me my extremely portable but incredibly low powered Samsung 500T (Intel Atom 1.8GHz, 2GB RAM, Win10).

I am not new to coding, however the last languages I used were BBC Basic and C64 Basic so to say I am rusty would be to vastly understate things.

Anyway, I have bought an ebook for my Kindle (Learn Visual Basic in 8 hours - Visual Basic is what they currently teach where I work), However I am struggling to get an installation of VB working on my 500T - I installed Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition but it ran incredibly, painfully, excruciatingly slowly, so I then managed to find a copy of Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition but it wont run for some unknown reason!

I would just like to get a version of VB to run on my system so I can learn the basics - any help would or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
 
I couldn't find a version to download from MS as links always point you towards VS 2017, so I managed to find a download from another source (I didn't think this was too bad as the software is free anyway). I'm currently trying again with the install of 2017 and will see how I get on with that.
 
AHarvey said:
VB videos from Microsoft themselves via the Virtual Academy: https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/tra...sic-fundamentals-for-absolute-beginners-16507

If you can'r run it locally, then are there any online IDE's for it?

VB.NET online IDE : https://dotnetfiddle.net/
VB Online : http://rextester.com/l/vb

I am sure there are others as well but that's just a quick google from me.


Might be the best option to get the basics down at least.
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I won't have internet access where I am staying!
 
Sorry, I missed that, was reading in a rush.

My advice then would be, if you can't get something running, just to download as many videos etc as you can. You may not be able to practice coding but reading and watching it enough will give you a great basis for when you do start coding.
 
Joebob said:
I have just had a quick look, does it cover VB as well?
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Yes, it does. You can download a portable installation if you are unsure about installing it.
It is a pretty decent IDE, maybe not got the latest features of VS2017, but not bad.
Don't d/l Shardevelop 5 as this is c# only!
 
Long shot in the dark - If you right click the installer you can select in compatilibility mode. Doesnt always work but you can pick a version of windows that is older and this could help you out.
 
Andre said:
Yes, it does. You can download a portable installation if you are unsure about installing it.
It is a pretty decent IDE, maybe not got the latest features of VS2017, but not bad.
Don't d/l Shardevelop 5 as this is c# only!
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That works great, thanks :)
 
Ok, so now I'm hitting problems again. The book I have is call "VISUAL BASIC: in 8 Hours, For Beginners" and just talks you through the code, so doesn't deal with any aspects of each IDE and setting up etc.

In SharpDevelop 4.4 I have started a new project and opened a new VB empty file which has then been saved as a .vb file. I have inputted the following code as the book told me to:

Module Module1
Sub Main()
Console.WriteLine("Hallo World!")
Console.ReadLine()
End Sub
End Module

I understand each of the above lines of code, but the 'Play' button within the IDE is greyed out and I don't know why?

[EDIT] Never mind, I sorted it - I didn't realise I needed to start a new 'solution' and then add a vb file to that.
 
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