What is visual basic

It's a programming language and you can find many sites that teach VB online, like this one:

http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/InfoTech/informit/ITLC04.asp 

Visual Basiv is a programming language.

You can use it with Visual Studio (MS dev. platform). Moreover it is integrated in all MS office applications like Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook, Visio, ... . It is located in the Tools->Macro Menü (ALT F11).

Moreover Visual Basic Script exists which is a script language. The syntax is nearly the same as for Visual Basic. This makes it easy to do programming and scripting simultaneously. 

Code examples can easily be found via Google 'vb ...'.

Tutorials are displayed via 'vb tutorial' or 'vb tutorial free'.

Visual Basic, "vb" in geekspeak, is a microsoft programming language. It is fairly straightforward. an it is the introductory langue of chice for "object oriented" programing-

From wikipedia:

Visual Basic (VB) is an event driven programming language and associated development environment from Microsoft for its COM programming model. VB has been replaced by Visual Basic .NET. The older version of VB was derived heavily from BASIC and enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using DAO, RDO, or ADO, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects

Here is a link to a free tutorial

http://www.vbtutor.net/vbtutor.html

Hope this helps

Visual Basic is a programming language created by Microsoft. It is particularly good at writing programs that have a graphical user interface since VB (as it's known) comes with a variety of ready-made dialog boxes, check boxes, text-entry areas, etc.

 The VB programming language is (compared to most other programming languages) relatively easy to learn and to understand. You design a program by creating the forms and dialog boxes the user will encounter. You add elements to those forms and boxes by choosing from a palette of tools and positioning them where you want. Then, of course, you have to program the forms and boxes to do what you want. For example, you might design a form that lets a user choose a text file to be turned into upper case. VB makes it pretty easy to create the form the user would use to browse to the file she wants to uppercase. But then you have to write the programming code that opens the file, gets the text, uppercases it, and closes the file.

 Note, though, that a few years ago, Microsoft introduced its latest version of VB, called VB.net. It is much much harder to learn and understand. VB6 is the version before VB.net and is a far better choice for a beginning programmer.

 There are many sites that have VB tutorials. In addition, many sites answer common - and not so common - questions about VB, which also makes it a good choice for a beginner.  Here is one tutorial: http://theopensourcery.com/vb01tut.htm

Try Trolltech Qt with C++ instead. much more powerful and the toolkit makes it just as easy.

http://trolltech.com/

http://doc.trolltech.com/

Or if you don't want to do C, try QtRuby, which is Believe me, the fastest way to develop Software. 

http://rubyforge.org/projects/korundum/

http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/ruby/index.html 

Visual Basic is a software development language which was devised by Microsoft, based on the original language "Basic".

Visual basic provides an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which enables people with litlle or nonexistent programming knowledge to quickly create graphical user-interface aplications.

Visual basic was first introduced before the Internet became a major applicaiton platform, but in recent years it evolved into a full-fledged platform for developing Internet applicaitons.

A very good resource can be found in

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/default.aspx

Where you can also download a free "express" version of Visual Basic, with multiple step-by-step examples to get started with.