VB . NET with VS 2017 and Windows Forms (Udemy.com)

As an experienced C++ developer of many many years, I am very familiar with programming concepts that somewhat universal for many languages. My main interest in this course is to get to appreciate the VB concepts that differentiate it from C++. Also I wanted to get a better understanding of the .NET framework. I would have loved a more targeted course that avoided simple programming instruction and focused in more depth on .NET and VB unique concepts and constructs.

I thought the instructor Tom provided the right amount of detail, consistency and forward progress/accumulated knowledge throughout to make this course useful to several levels of students. I appreciated that he often would put up a msg that said to pause and try things on your own, or investigate further on your own before going further. I like that many of his examples provided useful info.

This is a great course. The instructor provides clear detailed explanations not only for the code, but for the deeper workings of the .Net framework and Visual Studio. His brilliant teaching style helps you learn programming concepts and use of tools that allow you to build on what you've learned to develop your own applications using tools provided by Microsoft and the concepts given by the instructor in this course. The pace of this course is also very good and the video duration is good for most of the videos. Video segments are long enough to learn from, but not so long enough that you zone out and lose focus.

I am really enjoying the presentation and information too. I especially like the detail and his questions to make me think - how should I do this or that. I think the training and teacher are excellent. I finished the course today! I would be stretching the truth to say that I understand all of what was taught at this time. But the instructor really helped me to see how to dig under the surface within VB and by using the MS reference source to try to understand what is going on behind the scenes. I truly enjoyed this course and found it most helpful. I wish he had a VB part 2 session as the teaching style and questions really kept my interest going throughout the course. Very well done, thank you for producing this course.

This is an excellent course for beginners. Tom is a mathematician and computer scientist who has a deep grasp about the underlying workings of Object Oriented Programming in general, and about Visual Basic/C#/.Net specifically. This is not a superficial treatment but rather a solid explanation of the necessary concepts. You will not just learn the how, but also the why. If you are just interested in learning syntax, this is not for you. This course gives you the tools needed to further delve into the .Net framework.

I am trying to learn to transition from inline code to object oriented code. This author seems more interested in delving into the building blocks of visual studio rather than teaching vb.net. Consider this statement. "dim variable as integer = myproperty.value." That is all I need to know in order to learn how and what this statement does. Just explain what the statement does and move on. Don't move down into the studio developer code . I didn't come here to learn that. I came to learn how to write vb.net code.

The instructor takes a very down to earth, no nonsense approach to presenting information and explaining concepts. He challenges students to actively engage in the learning process by attempting, at various points in the lessons, to figure out how to accomplish a certain task or to predict what would happen if certain changes to program code or objects are made. Lessons are generally rather short to keep the students' attention and break up complex and involved topics into more easily assimilated chunks. I think this course is an ideal introduction to the VB.NET language that emphasizes real world application development and teaches the basic practical skills necessary to be a productive programmer in a work environment. The instructor also includes frequent, detailed forays into the "belly of the beast", i.e. the .NET framework itself, in order to demonstrate some of the inner workings of this extremely vast and complex set of programmatic constructs that are ultimately responsible for making VB.NET (and other .NET languages) the powerful programming tools that they are. I found these segments intriguing and enlightening. They have helped me have a better appreciation for what's going on underneath the hood, so to speak, in .NET development. Great course!!!

I work as a programmer for CAD (Autodesk Inventor primarily) customization and this really helped me to see a lot about aspects of VB.net that I don't often necessarily run into but do often enough for it to be a gem. The instructor passed information on seamlessly, professionally and helped me to make my add-in forms more aesthetically-pleasing. Two thumbs up!

Keep up the great work. You are awesome....... I have learned VB and Pascal on my own and developed a Language processing app that took 30 yrs. of research. You have helped me with VB 2017 to bring it out to those who need this unique program "SriLiaWrite" for Linguistic Text processing concurrently in 4 different languages. Sinhala, Tamil, Divehi and English. Thank you once again, Sincerely, Dr. Sisira Ranasinghe 2/12/2018

I found the instructors style and methods of teaching to be very effective & clear. The course allows a beginner to grasp the concepts to be learned and retained fairly quickly as he guides the student through the code, while explaining key concepts to make things more clear. I will be taking more of his classes in the near future