Why Visual Basic?

Why Visual Basic?
Programming for the Windows User
Interface is extremely complicated.
Other Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) are
no better.
Visual Basic provides a convenient method
for building user interfaces.
Visual Basic can interface with code written
in C, for efficiency.

What Visual Basic is not
Visual Basic is not, a powerful
programming language that enables you to
do anything you want.
Visual Basic is not, elegant or fast.
Visual Basic is not, a replacement for C.
Visual Basic is not, anything like any other
programming language you have ever used.

When You Program in VB:
You draw pictures of your user interface.
You draw buttons, text boxes, and other
user-interface items.
You add little snippets of code to handle the
user interaction.
You add initialization code, usually as the
last step.
If you like, you can code more complex
functions. (But many do not.)

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