Certainly, the next few years of my learning to program was unlearning ideas I had developed from coding in Visual Basic. But it gave me the start in understand

Certainly, the next few years of my learning to program was unlearning ideas I had developed from coding in Visual Basic. But it gave me the start in understanding how functions work, how sub-procedures work, and how objects work. More importantly though, Visual Basic gavve me the excitement and possibility that I could make this thing on my family's desk do pretty much whatever I wanted. And Visual Basic made that very accessible.