I want to get into programming and someone recommended Visual Basic to start out with...I have a little experience with VB but it was a few years ago. I remember a little bit about it but i never really went in depth.
Is it a good idea to learn it further? Or should i go with another language? Thanks in advance brehs
Skip it.
You want to get into a programming language where the software is free. Always free.
Learn to program in Java. Java is free.
Also, other Apache programs are free like ant or maven, those are build/compilation tools.
Unix shell languages are free, csh, bsh, bash.
Perl is free, Perl is a scripting language.
Visual Basic is not free and whatever Microsoft package you need to get, it isn't going to be free unless someone is unloading a cheap or free version of 5.0 or 4.0 and that's trash anyway.