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Hi Everyone. This is Chad from Canada. I am in accounting at a community college. Actually, I have no programming experience but just started BASIC a few days ago and enjoying it alot. Not like boring accounting.
What got me into it was a co-worker who was a fulltime programmer before he switched to accounting. In his free time he designed macros in Excel for us that would facilitate everyday routine tasks like reformatting bank transactions and creating spreadsheets with formulas.
My current aim is to reach the level of learning VBA macros for Excel, since that is most applicable for my current profession. I would like to know what is the next step from BASIC? QuickBasic and then Visual Basic and then VBA or can I skip QuickBasic. My company is taking on more clients so there will be plenty of transactions that we need to prepare in spreadsheets for reconciliation. I would like to help them asap but have some supporting knowledge before I raise my hand.
Thanks. And hope to get to know you guys better
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Posted 27 December 2011 - 02:54 PM
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Welcome to our community, eh!
BASIC is an old simple language as is meant to be, QuickBASIC would be Microsoft's DOS IDE with minor additions that is still 23 years out of date. Visual Basic is Microsoft's own creation of the branch of BASIC-like languages and would probably be a good choice to learn next. It is partially implemented as VBA, and so you may share quite a bit of syntax between the two if your goal is to be fluent in VBA eventually.
Visual Basic is a little old however, Visual Basic .NET is a little newer, supports mostly the same syntax and has close ties with the Microsoft .NET framework which can be a plus if you were want to write applications a little more advanced than what VBA/VB6 could provide.
Alexander.
BASIC is an old simple language as is meant to be, QuickBASIC would be Microsoft's DOS IDE with minor additions that is still 23 years out of date. Visual Basic is Microsoft's own creation of the branch of BASIC-like languages and would probably be a good choice to learn next. It is partially implemented as VBA, and so you may share quite a bit of syntax between the two if your goal is to be fluent in VBA eventually.
Visual Basic is a little old however, Visual Basic .NET is a little newer, supports mostly the same syntax and has close ties with the Microsoft .NET framework which can be a plus if you were want to write applications a little more advanced than what VBA/VB6 could provide.
Alexander.
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Posted 27 December 2011 - 04:00 PM
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What is Microsoft Visual Studio? The future shop down here is selling that for $1000!
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Posted 27 December 2011 - 04:28 PM
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spherion said:
What is Microsoft Visual Studio? The future shop down here is selling that for $1000!
Be sure to read the updated FAQ! || Health is achieved through the same 10,000 steps.
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Posted 27 December 2011 - 05:27 PM
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Welcome aboard! I would just jump into VBA. It's what you want to do, and trailing through several dead languages is basically a waste of your time. Right now, people pick almost any language as their first language, and are successful. If you want a "programming" language for designing your own apps, Visual Studio/VB.NET would be a good choice.
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Posted 27 December 2011 - 05:52 PM
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Welcome!
If you don't want to jump straight into VBA you may want to try Microsoft Small Basic. It's targeted at beginning programmers.
If you don't want to jump straight into VBA you may want to try Microsoft Small Basic. It's targeted at beginning programmers.
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Posted 27 December 2011 - 05:58 PM
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mebob,wingedpanther and Alexander, thanks for your advice. Should I just drop BASIC and head for Small Basic? I got my hands on Visual Basic but I dont wana get scared away just yet hehe...
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Posted 27 December 2011 - 06:23 PM
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I consider BASIC a basically useless language, unless you want a soft intro to assembly, which you don't.
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Posted 28 December 2011 - 03:56 AM
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Welcome to codecall Chad!
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Posted 28 December 2011 - 03:58 AM
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spherion said:
mebob,wingedpanther and Alexander, thanks for your advice. Should I just drop BASIC and head for Small Basic? I got my hands on Visual Basic but I dont wana get scared away just yet hehe...
Visual Basic may likely crack a few misunderstandings in their place and allow you to be a better VBA programmer. BASIC or that other BASIC dialect mentioned may only dumb down some issues in the end. You can always make some neat things in Visual BASIC while learning VBA, only if learning it for little bits at time.
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Posted 31 December 2011 - 09:27 AM
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VBA is what exactly? It is basically the functions already in Excel right? Do I need to download some other things to learn VBA
Update: Visual Basic turns out to be a lot of fun. I am working through the online tutorial: How to create a picture viewer. I haven't reached the coding part yet but looks like it is coming up soon :)
Update: Visual Basic turns out to be a lot of fun. I am working through the online tutorial: How to create a picture viewer. I haven't reached the coding part yet but looks like it is coming up soon :)
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Posted 31 December 2011 - 09:57 AM
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Hello, Chad.
Welcome to the CodeCall Programming forums.
Good to have you here. This is a good group of people, and there is a lot of good information and many knowledgeable members in these forums. I think you'll like it here.
See you around the forums.
Welcome to the CodeCall Programming forums.
Good to have you here. This is a good group of people, and there is a lot of good information and many knowledgeable members in these forums. I think you'll like it here.
See you around the forums.
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