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Ok, visual basics is a program and a language right???  So do I have to download VB and if so where do I get it?

Oh yeah, I fiund vb 6.0 on msdn/microsoft and it when I download the file it says that it is 192mb.  Should the file be that big or am I downloading the wrong program?

This would belong on the VB forum.  And don't say Visual Basics, or Cuphead may have you killed.

Quote from: iago on November 24, 2003, 06:17 PM
This would belong on the VB forum.  And don't say Visual Basics, or Cuphead may have you killed.

'Tis true, 'tis true.  To answer your question completely, Visual Basic is a programming language that gets much of its syntax (that is, the way that the parts of the language -- identifiers, or variable names; keywords, or the things that more or less "control" what happens; et.al.) from the original BASIC language, or Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.  Microsoft wanted to develop a language that was both easy-to-use and RAD, or Rapid Application Development, friendly, and from this was borne Visual Basic.

Along with the language, you get a fully-featured Rapid Application Development Environment, also known as an Integrated Development Environment, or IDE.  This will typically include a Visual Basic Forms Designer (when you're running a Windows program, there are various features of every window, including buttons, scrollbars, and text boxes - these all sit on what is called a "Form" in Visual Basic), a code view environment with "IntelliSense" (which predicts what you're about to type), a code compiler, and an online help collection.  To be complete, I would guess that yes, the Visual Basic download should be approximately 200mb.

Once you're set with that, check out CupHead's homepage for possibly looking into CleanSlateBot, a Visual Basic control that, more-or-less, enables the newbiest of newbs to make a bot.  Pretty sick that after more than four years of programming, and well over one year with C#, and that it would take me four months to even get the two computers communicating, that you can just come in and make your bot with CSB, but hey - do your own thing.  I feel fulfilled.    CupHead has also recently posted a tutorial, and IIRC*, that is linked to from his page.

Cheers,

--Rob

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Footnotes:
IIRC: If I Recall Correctly, or If I Remember Correctly

Quote from: 13-yr-Old-Newb on November 24, 2003, 06:04 PM
Oh yeah, I fiund vb 6.0 on msdn/microsoft and it when I download the file it says that it is 192mb.  Should the file be that big or am I downloading the wrong program?

When I got mine it was about 75 megs, and was a fragmented version of Visual Studio 6, with VB and VC++, course that's all I really needed anyway.