Visual Basic (VB) is a Microsoft development environment and programming language used to create web, Windows and Microsoft Office applications. Like the BASIC programming language, Visual Basic was designed to be easy to learn and use. The language not only allows programmers to create simple GUI applications, but can also develop complex applications. Programming in VB is a combination of visually arranging components or controls on a form, specifying attributes and actions of those components, and writing additional lines of code for more functionality.

Visual Basic 6 is a later version of the Visual Basic language and very popular among programmers. Although it has been replaced with the Visual Basic.Net, there are many resources available to help you get started with Visual Basic 6. If you are interested in learning this language, read books or articles about general programming to get an understanding of code, expressions, strings, variables and other programming lingo. Get an understanding of the .net framework. Try some free online tutorials before committing to books or classes. You can get an idea of the skills you need to develop and the difficulty of learning the VB language.