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I confess, despite my conversion to C# I first learnt to code in VB and there's nothing you can do about it!
modified 27-Nov-12 10:29am.
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We can laugh.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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Even with voting, we couldn't do anything about you learning to code in VB. Depending on what you were working on, VB was possibly a fine choice.
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On our quiet nightshifts as a tech, I first really started messing about with VB3, then onto VB4. I wrote a well testing application for the shift, as a standard approach for all the techs to use to minimise human error factors when calculating the test data traditionally done by calculators. and then poorly controlled spreadsheets. Then the other shifts adopted it.
It saved about 25minutes man time per test, and usually did 1 test per day, so you can see the savings it made. And it generated a standard html output as a report that could then be attached to an email for sending to town.
I got a spot bonus which was probably not far off a months wages (after tax) for my efforts.
So VB has to be thanked for that!
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VB6 started off my career. My first major project, as a very green freelance contractor was VB6, because although strictly speaking I learnt to code in TurboPascal at uni, I found VB6 great for a beginner to get real world, working apps into the field.
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I remember my first project, I was estimating roof tile materials, the company usually sent 20% extra material to cover estimation errors and breakages. My error rate vanished after I wrote the program (on a commodore 64) except I had to transcribe the results to paper after the calcs.
The program eventually formed the spec for an app written on a PDP11 I think, I did not get a bonus, they fired me (I was a really crappy salesman).
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Friends don't let friends code in VB! You don't have any friends? 
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Love the art...I'll see your 5 and raise you 5.
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and a ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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VB?!
You young whipper-snappers, with your "visual" this and your "inter" that!
I learnt to code in BASIC. On a Sinclair Spectrum. With line-numbers. And single-letter variables. And no functions.
10 PRINT "Hello World"
20 GOTO 10
That's real programming, that is! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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C64 for me!
(just waiting for the real dinosaurs to start telling us all about their early days with their punch cards  )
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Who you calling a dinosaur?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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I owe you a 5!
(That's just 5, not 5 factorial)
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Richard Deeming wrote: I learnt to code in BASIC. On a Sinclair Spectrum. With line-numbers.
And single-letter variables. And no functions.
Child.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Child.
I'll take that as a compliment! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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WRITE (6,7)
7 FORMAT(13H RIGHT)
STOP
END
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I mislearned programming on an ABC 80[^].
It had the same processor as a Sinclair, but a MUCH better interpreter.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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Sadly no, but I spent a lot of time at a friends whos father owned one. Still have the printouts from a couple of games.
My parents never saw the point in computers, so my first own computer was bought a bit later for my own hard earned money at my summer job.
It was a used 6MHz IBM AT with an EGA monitor, 512kB RAM and a 20 MB double height harddrive.
That harddrive outperformed most other drives for many years. It also outnoised them.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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I remember they had a room full of ABC 80's at Fana Gymnas in the early eighties - I belive their primary function was to collect dust. The students had their own computers, and I'm not sure any of the teachers new how to turn them on.
At the time I had a part-time job pushing Ataris, Commodore 64s, zx-spectrums, Acorns, etc. so that was one course I didn't sign on for.
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Bah, whatever.
Back in the 1800's, I had to learn how to program a loom[^] using punch cards.
8-D
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This made me think of "Wanted[^]". That was a weird movie, but I enjoyed it.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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you may laugh but I was taught at technical college to program a jacquard loom, the lesson was 1/2 hour per week for a term the same as it was for basic programming. The difference was that we got to run the Jacquard program on a real jacquard something we were never allowed to do with our basic program
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Were you at least able to keep what you made?
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