What are good books to learn the programming language of Visual Basic?
If J.M. Keynes were a programmer, not an economist, he might have said that programming is a difficult and technical subject, although no one will believe it (he actually said that about economics). If your learning experience so far has been along the “boring and not very satisfying” lines, that’s probably how it’s going to stay. As a general rule, in Visual Basic (or any other language you can use to program Windows applications), only 20% of your code will be the original algorithms you develop, while 80% will be calls to all sorts of application programming interfaces (APIs). So your success as a programmer will depend largely on your knowledge of APIs, which means reading a lot of very technical documentation. As Joel Spolsky once put it, an expert Windows programmer should be able to “name four ways to FTP a file from Visual Basic code and the pros and cons of each”. If that ki
