Visual Basic Coding

[jackass]

I'll correct myself, use of VB as a programming language is non-existant at any reasonable organisation.

Shows you have a very misguided view of British Telecom then.

[Chippiewill]

Shows you have a very misguided view of British Telecom then.

Shows I have a very low regard for BT, yes.

[CrazyLemurs]

I'm afraid you'll be using VB at A level too so you mayaswell get good at it.

Oh darn
At least I'm pretty okay at it I suppose

[Pegle]

I should be doing GCSE Computing next year. But me a teacher and a friend are learning Python after school and it's going quite well. I don't really like VB.NET as I got bored of it pretty quickly.

[dbgtz]

I'm afraid you'll be using VB at A level too so you mayaswell get good at it.

Unless the college does C# or Delphi. Even if they don't teach it, you can learn independently and do the A2 project in that language.

Personally I'd say if you don't like it, teach yourself a more relevant language.

[Futz]

Unless the college does C# or Delphi. Even if they don't teach it, you can learn independently and do the A2 project in that language.

Personally I'd say if you don't like it, teach yourself a more relevant language.

Yeah I agree with dbgtz, if you're serious about a career in programming, equip yourself with as many languages as you can and get really good at some of the mainly used ones like c# javascript PHP, most programmers are self taught but just need the paper degree from computer science to prove it

[mrwoooooooo]

Well that's a load of rubbish. I work for BT and the amount of macros and tools that are made in VB (VBA technically...) via Excel and Access is unbelievable. I've made many myself during my time there and they come in very useful when compiling MML for site migrations and whatnot.

... they use Access? LOL

[CrazyLemurs]

Unless the college does C# or Delphi. Even if they don't teach it, you can learn independently and do the A2 project in that language.

Personally I'd say if you don't like it, teach yourself a more relevant language.

I don't know what our school teaches at A-Level, but it's a lot of effort to be learning another programming language out of school, and I'm really lazy.
To be honest, the GCSE (and maybe A-Level) are really for something to get a good grade on, rather than make a career out of.

[Recursion]

... they use Access? LOL

Sarcasm? Access is a huge product.

[mrwoooooooo]

Sarcasm? Access is a huge product.

Shouldn't be used in businesses of BT's size...