Paul Vick - What makes a great Visual Basic programmer?

Posted: Oct 14, 2004 at 6:08 PM

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We thought we'd put Paul on the spot and ask him:

"Fill in the blank, a great VB programmer does _____."

Here's his answer.

In another video that we just posted we asked Paul to tell us how to make our Visual Basic applications run faster.

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kildare

Sep 22, 2005 at 4:37 PM

Man..this is the first worthless video I have found on Channel 9. No matter how the interviewer tried, he couldn't get the interviewee to commit to one thing that makes a good vb programmer. How about creativity..its one word..or discipline....or intuition..or even magic fingers for god's sake. But "thinking" as the interviewee recommended means nothing without the basics. Even when prompted on test specs and practically given the idea, the response was well everyone is different.
SuperFes Fester

Oct 17, 2005 at 11:48 AM

That's because there is no such thing as a "Great" Visual Basic programmer, call my bias or whatever, but scripting languages, including VB are no place for a programmer.

Coder maybe, hacker probably. But developers and programmers eventually grow up and start developing in programming languages where useful parts don't only come in ActiveX controls and DLLs.
Speedbird186

Nov 02, 2005 at 3:58 PM

SuperFes wrote:

That's because there is no such thing as a "Great" Visual Basic programmer, call my bias or whatever, but scripting languages, including VB are no place for a programmer.

Coder maybe, hacker probably. But developers and programmers eventually grow up and start developing in programming languages where useful parts don't only come in ActiveX controls and DLLs.

Exactly when did you last use Visual Basic?
dantheman82

Nov 07, 2005 at 6:32 PM

I got it. A great VB programmer does ... C#. Yeah s/he moves to a mature language. Enough said...
thewizster Life is Good Here in Big D...

Feb 14, 2006 at 6:30 AM

Viva La VB!!!!! Programming for the masses....

Normal people turn great ideas into working apps too...

No need to be a rocket scientist in our day and time when amatures can build and launch rockets too....