I also used to be a non coder until I got my hands on VB. Consequently, my first programs were GUI instead of command line, which was everyone else's "hello wor

I also used to be a non coder until I got my hands on VB. Consequently, my first programs were GUI instead of command line, which was everyone else's "hello world". It took a while to convince myself to learn other languages that didn't have GUI out of the box, because non-GUI software didn't look like the software I knew or wanted. My more "advanced" C/C++ friends, on the other hand, thought of GUI stuff as being more difficult.