I'm already 22 years old, am I too old too learn VB 2005 well???
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Maybe, but I'm 57 and I managed OK.

Thanks, it helped a lot.:)

There is nothing about programming that is any harder for a 22 year old (or a 57 year old) than it is for someone younger. I have taught programming in the university, and found that if a person has an interest and is reasonably intelligent they can learn to program. I have found that the older students often do better (all other things being equal) because they have a bit of maturity which allows them to keep going even when things are difficult. In any case, you have to dedicate sufficient time and brain power to it. Programming isn't something that can be learned easily except by a very small minority of people who have a natural talent for it. For the rest of us, it just takes hard work and a lot of thinking.

Woody Z http://www.learntoprogramnow.com

Additionally, I have found that learning more about how life works gives me a better ability to understand how types of concepts in the programming world behave and interact. Those who created programming languages often have devoted a lot of thought to modelling the language after reality.

For instance, all real objects have a virtual property, "name." Sometimes it is a formal name ("Bob," "The Eiffel Tower"), and sometimes it is a class name ("car," "tower"). Those who have developed the ability to use Object Oriented Programming have modelled this observation of reality in the ability in programming to use virtual properties. That's just one example.

As we learn of things that have mutually exclusive properties, and those that have properties that can be additive, we have a beeter ability to understand the same principles that George Boole incorporated into his philosophy, which has since been incorporated into SQL, and branching statements.

So, being older can be helpful. If one has used the time gone by to sedentate, age is a detriment.

Thank you very much for being so patient! I'm more confident now.I always admire those who can creat cool softwares, I want be one of them. Though I have to devote much time to work,I will spent as much time as I can on my interest. I guess you are professional,aren't you?

I learned to program while working a full time job that had nothing to do with programming. You have to have time to dedicate to learning, but as you start to become more capable, it is possible to start finding work that is related to programming. This makes it easier and easier to learn more. Most of the programming contracts or jobs I have worked on provided a great opportunity to learn stuff while I worked - that is almost the rule in software development: A part of the job is learning how to do whatever is needed to provide the functionality required.

Woody Z http://www.learntoprogramnow.com

We're in the same boat, I am 25 and just got into VB, it's fun and amazingly powerful. I thought that the only way to go was to learn the more complicated languages, but VB has seen me through a lot.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)