Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition for Dummies
Chapter One
What It's All About: Visual Basic
Express Takes a Bow
In This Chapter
* Understanding why VB Express exists
* Discovering VB Express's goals
* Organizing via the user interface
* Programming for the Internet
Visual Basic Express is the only popular computer programming language
available today. By popular, I mean "for the people" - novices, small-business
people, amateurs - anyone other than professional programmers.
VB Express is the language for the rest of us. It's not yet popular in the sense
of selling well - but I hope that soon changes.
Whether it will become popular in the other sense of the word, only time will
tell. But there are far more small-business people, beginners, and enthusiasts
than there are professionals, just as amateur cooks outnumber professional
chefs. That's why VB Express's predecessor, Visual Basic, was for a decade
the world's most popular computer language by a wide margin.
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