"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
yes i agree.... it took me 2 semesters just to udnerstand the basic of c++ just because i was first exposed VB... My mind was set to think the wrong way i had to re-learn Everything... it was actualy harder to learn i thnk.
I thnk if c++ was first language i attempted to learn i would of been much better at it by now. VB is a waste of time.... if u plan to continue learning programing .... in the long run.
But for simple little apps its good... like stupid games and such...