Re: Is learning visual basic worth it?
I there!
Well, I am curious and like to experiment, so, after reading this discusion, I wondered: why so many people recommens python and not visual basic?It's a language that depens on iddentation, and last night I had a nightmare about debugging 1000 lines trying to figure out how many spaces and tabs are on each line
So, let's give visual basic a try.
The results? In 15-20 minutes I finished a rendering window (without using windows forms), a basic gameloop, whitch accepts keyboard input, so if you press M, it shows a message from a string variable, and if you press C, the game closes.
It took 15-20 minutes (with pauses to research how to declare variables and include refferences, etc), and there are no more than 20-30 lines.
Note: I used sfml (an external media library), and tried to minimize .net framework elements.
It's my first experience with visual basic, so, my opinion is that you can use it to make games easily (though intelli-sense works much better with c#). If you know a bit of basic, even the old one, go ahead, it's easy and your way will be much more easy with all that previous knowledge.
Some advantages:
Visual basic has a good readability, no {}, no semicolons, and statements use some english words instead.
Fast and easy integration with .net framework (now open source).
A free accessible ide (visual studio community 2013, or 2015, though it still have some accessibility bugs).
Fast and easy windows form designer, etc.
I can post the code here if anyone is interested. If someone could repeat the experiment using python we could compare results.
Have a nice day!
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