Its one of, if not is, the easiest and most basic form of coding. People use this coding in Microsoft's program, [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] . In this program you make other programs, basic programming.

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There are no limits to the number of different kinds of programs you can make! I've seen kinds of programs that include: educational programs (game teachers), business programs (inventory management system, financial management, payroll system, etc), gamers (modding programs), mp3/video players, pretty much anything!

So first, I guess I should show you how to get started. Once you download it and get everything set-up, your going to want to run Visual Basic Express. That will bring you to the start page.

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From there you'll need to click on "New Project". It will then bring you to a page like the one below...

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From here you can make your programs.

When you are on the "Create a new project" screen, choose "Windows Forms Application" because that is the most simple one and you are a beginner. At the bottom of the screen you will need to pick a name. Name it "Lessons" and then click OK. Add a textbox and a button from the "Toolbox". Your form should now look like this...

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Now double-click on "Button1". It will take you to a code page. We're going to make it so when you click on the button, it will write "Hello" in the text box. When you're on the code page it should look like this...

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The Public Class Form1 is stating that this is the code for Form1, which is the name of the window you're working on. The "Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click" is stating that your writing code for when you click on button1. The "End Sub" states the end of the coding for button1. Now for the coding... Im going to say the coding, then tell you what it means. Textbox1.Text = "Hello". Since this is in the button1.click part, it is saying that when you click on button1, insert text into the textbox saying Hello. What the coding should look like is below...

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So now that we have the coding in, lets try out the program. Click on the green triangle in the toolbar at the top.

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The form you just made should popup. Test to see that the coding is right by clicking on the button. If you typed everything correctly, it should say Hello in the textbox. If you didn't either nothing will show up or it will tell you there is an error. If everything ends up working corectly, then you have just passed Test1. When you are satisfied go to the next test"

Now lets learn strings. This part is pretty self explanatory. Delete the coding you just wrote. Before we add the string I'm going to explain a string to you. When you create a string you turn a whole line of coding into one word. For example if you write "Dim happy as string = "Hello, what up?" ", happy is the one word and "Hello, what up" is the whole line. So instead of having to write the whole line of coding, you can now just write happy. Now lets insert that into the project. You will want to write textbox1.text = happy. Your coding should look like mine...

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Notice that I put the string above the private sub. Always put your strings here, it will just make things less complicated in the future. Debug (green arrow) your project and test if it works

Congrats on making it this far, this is the final test for now. we are going to make a questionare type thingy using a label, textbox, and a button and the code will use a If - End If feature. So like it says above add the needed features

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(click on the object and change the "Text" in the properties window to match whats on the screen)

and delete all the code you just wrote. Now before we make any code, I'm going to tell you I use "Ifs" all the time and they're very important. Anyways so I'm 19, and so I'm going to make where if you type in that you're 18 or younger it says you're young, if you're 19 it will say you're neither young or old, and if you're 20 + i twill say your old. When you make it, you can set the ages up however you want. So first under the button code, we're going to type: if textbox1.text <=18 then textbox1.text = "Youre young". Like that. and if is always followed by a then. once you finish the code for the then, then you need and end if, which states that you're done writing the then code. If you want 2 ifs before the end if, then you will use else if. For example:

If textbox1.text <= 18 Then
Label1.Text = "You're Young"
ElseIf textbox1.text = 19 Then
Label1.Text = "You're Neither Young Or Old"

Then there would be an End If but there is one line of code missing. I want you to make this code. Use an ElseIf. You are going to want to write that everyone older than 19 is "Old", then insert the missing End If