in an IDEn you cuse a mouse to "draw" your application and use the keyboard to type in the code that is to be executed.

VB introduces the concept of an event-driven programming model. VB watch for the occurrence of user events (pressing a key, using the mouse, ...). and performs assigned function for you to code further actions.

VB has incorporated is the concept of objects.

Objects provides a way to link together both code and data into a "package" in such a way as to make handling and saving the code/data more intuitively. VB forms are objects, menus are objects, and the so are the intrinsic VB controls.

Critical Visual Basic Elements
When you start VB, you will see a group of windows that are know as the VB IDE . As a programmer you will spend the majority of you time here, so you might as well get used to the IDE and spend a fair amount of time exploring the menu options that the IDE provides.

Pay attention to the keyboard shortcuts