I want to learn VBA for Access. I have books and looked at tutorials and I am signing up for an online class. My problem is everything assumes you have some previous programmer experience. Since I am on level .00 I need to know what DIM means, (), strings, so on and so forth. Can anyone recommend a beginning beginners help for VBA for Access please.

Good luck. Hopefully the online class will not assume you've had programming experience. The whole idea of Basic, is that is/was intended to be simple/basic.

DIM - short for 'DIMENSION' - as in reserve a certain amount of space for a variable.

variable: a special term used to store values/data for manipulation like:
where in the above example, two variables are defined and given the number values of five and six.

'string' - refers to text. No knitting applies here. I'm not sure how 'string' came to be associated with text, but 'string functions' generally manipulate small quantities of text. - there are 'substring' functions in some languages which will 'cut' a string at specified points and return a smaller value.

parenthesis () are often used to indicate a grouping of some type, in functions to indicate parameters.... Hmm. I can see you asking what's a parameter, what's a function? .....

Good luck. I'm not a VBA expert myself. but I have had some exposure to some languages. Reading/perusing this and other forums, using google, online help and TIME will help you gain a better understanding of all the above and more. (loops, conditional constructs, events, objects, classes, dll's)

If you ever feel you're not progressing, look back on this thread in a few weeks. You'll get an idea of how much you've learned.

Good Luck.
John