Is this possible

[tRiCksTa]

Is it possible for someone with 0 Visual Basics knowledge to make their first bot WITHOUT leaching. I have no Visual Basics knowledge.. just HTML. I dont want to leach off of people's sources. That's just lame. Is it possible to build a first bot with simple features then along the way while I really learn, make more features. If not, where can I learn VB. (Book or something) Please don't flame. 

[tRiCksTa]

Edit - Is anyone willing to teach me VB 1 on 1. I'm willing to learn. AIM or bnet is good

[Networks]

Not quite, probably not even a CSB bot. You'll have to have some knowledge of VB6 to even code something like that. Please do NOT call it Visual Basics, it's: Visual Basic. I am sure if you search the forum you'll be able to find relavent posts relating to what skills you'll need and basic information that is suitable for you. However if you feel you don't want to put forth the work, I gurantee you'll end up leeching.

[tRiCksTa]

Thx Network for replying. Well, leaching is not the way I want to go. I am currently looking a tutorials and beginner's guide for making my applications. (Not bots). I'm just seeing if it is possible. Now that you replied..I think not. Anyone willin to teach me 1v1?

[Hdx]

TrickSta, I am willing to answer any questiosn you ahve. As long as you jsut ask them and atleast try to figure it out for yourself befor hand. Anyway you can eather Post the question and have it answered by everyone ont eh forum, or PM me the question and i will answer it. Just ask spacific questions and people will respond if they have the information you need.
~-~(HDX)~-~

[MyndFyre]

Please do NOT call it Visual Basics, it's: Visual Basic.

This is derived from the acronym BASIC, which stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.    If you remember it's an acrynom, maybe it'll help you remember not to tack on that S. 

[tRiCksTa]

Well first of all.. I would like to know how you guys learned the language and started programming bots, etc. If you read books, what books. If you read information online, whats the URL etc.

[hismajesty]

http://www.msdn.com

[R.a.B.B.i.T]

Google was the best resource ever.

What got me into Visual BASIC was the fact that I already knew Quick BASIC (and some real BASIC).  QB I learned from reading "QBASIC By Example" by Que Books.  Google, however, was and still is the best place to find whatever you need.  Searching "VB6 Tutorial" or "Visual BASIC Tutorial" has some great results.

Finally, http://www.vbforums.com/ has a LOT of info, and you can ask whatever you want (for the most part) and you will usually get a quick reply.

[Dyndrilliac]

www.programmingtutorials.com

[tRiCksTa]

Thanks guys I will try them all out 

[Networks]

Buy a book, find ebooks or some massive tutorials on the net. Programming Bots is something that SHOULD come after. However bots was the reason I got into programming. I programmed bots for the most part while I learned. This is generally a bad habit but learning with no motivation is also so I am not sure. I as well was tempted to leech most of the code that was out there. I modded bots and learned what things were and how these things were used. I leeched but I never released anything that was not mine entirely. I found it was harder to leech in all actuality plus you don't learn much. I recommend you question EVERYTHING you come across and research about it because it's most likely important. Also if you do go ahead decide to learn VB6, I recommend you learn arrays. This is sorta of the way I started my battle.net programming life. If I could go back I wouldn't have learned VB6, I would've learned C++ instead (It's just a better language to learn, that'll help you in the long run).

[l)ragon]

You will need a good amount of info on winsock also so here mind the popup's.
http://www.vbip.com/winsock-api/default.asp

Edit:
More control's info your going to want to look up later.
TextBox / RichEdit,
ListView / Listbox,
Lable,
Menu
These are all your basic controls that will possibly be used in your main interface.

Mind you if you choose a bot as your first move into Visual Basic use the Telnet gateway, you will have less headaches doing so.

Since you have no prior experiance in the language you may want to buy a book, the books which I like are from Microsoft Press they give a great amount of detail, if your in Canada go to Chapters they normaly have a real large section for computer books.

[MyndFyre]

Well first of all.. I would like to know how you guys learned the language and started programming bots, etc. If you read books, what books. If you read information online, whats the URL etc.

I learned VB very ass-backwards.  I started with client-side JavaScript, then to server-side Microsoft JScript, then JScript.NET, then C#, then VB.NET, then into classic VB.

I highly recommend any of the Sams Publishing books on VB, as well as VBA for Dummies.

[tRiCksTa]

Ah...did anyone learn VB an easy way  (Instead of reading books or leeching.)