Let me first start by saying thanks to anybody willing to help me out.
I have been interested in programming for many years and i havde written some
very basic applications in VB6.
I find VB to be fairly easy but not really powerful enough, i then bought Microsofts Visual C++ to start learning a more universal and powerful language, i was shocked. It is VERY different from VB, i have absolutely NO idea whatsoever as to how i get started. I started Googling around for some answers and the only thing i came up with was that many people obviously dont like VB.
One of my friends adviced me to find a book to help me get started, but there seems to be alot of books on the topic and i dont wanna spend money on a book i cant use.
He also told me that i should try Borlands C++ Compiler instead of Visual C++, he gave me a starters book and i immidietly Dloaded the compiler from Borlands web page.
The book was exactly what i was looking for, it explained in detail and soon i realized that C++ is infact much like VB, the only problem is that since its an extremely old book, it follows an extremely old version of the compiler which is no longer available. The new compiler will not accept the commands that the book tells me to try out so that didnt work out very well
Where can i find a book which follows the current version of the compiler?
Which books do you recommend for Visual C++, please bear in mind that im a total noob, and the books i need is the ones covering the basics. Do you think that a book is the way to go, and lastly i would like to know why people dont like VB?
Thanks in advance.