Introduction to Programming

**Border Patrol** · September 12, 2012, 06:35 PM

Hey guys, I'm going to be offering an introductory programming course using Visual Basic starting in the coming weeks. If you're interested, let me know. If you're unsure, keep reading!

Course Objectives

The objectives of my course are simple, to instill you with a confidence in not only Visual Basic and the Microsoft development suite, but programming as a whole. Being able to think like a programmer is a fundamental first step in moving forward and I believe VB provides a great learning environment for that. Speaking of which, I'm sure you're wondering

Why Visual Basic?

Well, for starters, Visual Basic is a modern, high level language that is not only powerful but relatively easy to learn. Don't be intimidated by it's classification as a "high level language", the lower you go, the closer you are to computer-speak. This course is aimed at the crowd with very little or no prior coding experience.

There will be ten classes that consist of a brief lesson followed by an assignment making use of covered materials. I know that this may seem ambitious for a TWCU course, but give me one or two weeks per assignment and I will make coders out of you.

Anyone interested?

**Dredd** · September 12, 2012, 08:31 PM

Only one word that I'll use in response to this: Yes.

**complete noob:(** · September 12, 2012, 09:21 PM

I'd be interested

**Border Patrol** · September 13, 2012, 01:16 AM

Alright, I'll leave sign-ups until next Friday. If we get more than ten or fifteen people I'll try to start the ball rolling and try to integrate stragglers as they come along.

**Bonez** · September 13, 2012, 04:58 AM

Yes, I will definitely join this course!

**Thoms** · September 13, 2012, 07:07 AM

What a great idea, I'd be interested.

**Shankbot de Bodemloze** · September 14, 2012, 01:45 PM

Sounds good. I'd like to take part.

**Bonez** · September 19, 2012, 08:07 PM

Anything farther on this, or waiting for more people?

**Border Patrol** · September 20, 2012, 02:01 PM

I believe I have a minimum number of required participants, we're getting there, though!

**Bonez** · September 20, 2012, 02:08 PM

Okay.

**Kaiser Leonidas** · September 20, 2012, 04:12 PM

I'd be interested in doing this, although I am starting university next week so my time may be a bit more limited.

**Border Patrol** · September 20, 2012, 11:26 PM

That's fine. I'm willing to work with you guys. I'm thinking something along the lines of one lesson/assignment per two weeks. The first being tool installment and getting any issues worked out, only skimming the surface of doing any coding.

**Bonez** · September 21, 2012, 04:25 PM

So progress on getting started or are we waiting to have the board type thing set up for lessons?

**Border Patrol** · September 21, 2012, 10:15 PM

We need the board type setup going on. I'm still writing up the lesson plan outline for the moderator, but I have the first two lessons ready to go as soon as we get the green light. I also think we need more people, I'll let you guys know when I hear something. Just keep this thread subscribed.

**Eöl** · September 22, 2012, 05:53 AM

I would like to enter

**Wowwars** · September 22, 2012, 02:42 PM

Same as I!
Only thing close to coding(or anything close to that) ever in my experince in modding is VJass in bloody wc3 mods and it was sort of confusing at first, but eventually gave a better outcome than standard GUI. and i was 11 at the time now I'm older.

**Alkaline Earth** · September 22, 2012, 04:33 PM

How much time do you think this would take? I don't have much of it between school, wrestling practice, and part time work over the weekends. Not to mention all my homework.

**Border Patrol** · September 22, 2012, 11:16 PM

It's only as much time as you would insist on putting into it. These projects should only take about 1-3 hours, and since we're all busy I'll only be sending out lessons and assignments every week or two, depending on everyone's availability.

**Alkaline Earth** · September 23, 2012, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by Border Patrol

It's only as much time as you would insist on putting into it. These projects should only take about 1-3 hours, and since we're all busy I'll only be sending out lessons and assignments every week or two, depending on everyone's availability.

Alright then, I'm in.