Visual Basic 6.0 Examples

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Clock Project
Colour Picker Project
Database Project
Drag & Drop Project
Moving Project
Pong Project
Trianglulatatroniser
Cardsamundo Project
Falling People Project
Drawing Angles Project
Cellular Automaton
Rotatamundo Project

About this Section

You need Visual Basic 6 to use this section. You may find it hard to lay your hands on a version these days. It is still available in school on specific computers. See MHA if you need advice or want to do a bit of programming with Visual Basic 6

How Hard Is It?

I don't believe that programming is in itself a difficult thing to do. Becoming a skilled programmer does require you to use a lot of skills and learn a lot about the programming language that you are using. You need to develop a working knowledge of basic programming concepts as well.

I Want To Make A Game

Fine - make one. Games of the kind you might spend folding money on do not come easily. They are often written by teams of programmers and designers each with highly developed skills in specific areas of the work. It takes a long time to make a good game and requires an enormous amount of knowledge. Some of the examples in this section are based on gameplay of a sort but are still very basic. Visual Basic 6 has enough features to allow you to make some quite playable games. It is particularly good for making educational activities. I have spent a lot of time developing game ideas only to find that I don't find the game that fun to play. Variations on the solitaire theme are problably the exception to this rule. You are better off making tools for yourself (file handling, text processing, mathematical, screensavers) etc than trying to make your own version of Quake. The enjoyment that you get from programming is from solving problems - if you want to play a game, buy one.