Admittedly I haven't used Delphi but his reminds me of learning to program with realBASIC (Xojo). The book with the IDE was free and easy enough to comprehend

Admittedly I haven't used Delphi but his reminds me of learning to program with realBASIC (Xojo). The book with the IDE was free and easy enough to comprehend and it introduced all the basics of OOP. Great times. I wonder if lots of people have had this same experience with VB .NET