I just wanted to know if anyone knew of a good (free) download link for Visual Basic 6. ADMINS:If this is spamming or any admin feels this is inappropriate please delete it right away.

EDIT: And yes I am on a constant search for a download...

Learn a better language

Might this help?

I know Visual Basic is not a great language, I just wanted to learn it because it is not exceptionally hard. Just something else to learn. And all those links are just SP downloads.

actually, being VB is unlike any other language I have come across, I really don't recommend it, you are better off with something different.

We have to do VB6 in comp sci. It is sooo freaking boring. It's easy to get stuff done it, but it's just not thrilling like most programming.

And the real kicker is, we learned c++ last year! This is one of the biggest leaps backwards I think I have ever taken.

I doubt you will find VB 6, but if you must learn VB at all (*cough, waste, cough*), why go with 6 anyway? Go with .NET at least... (besides, then you can get a legally free version - the Express Edition: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/ )

SUGGESTIONS: Learn C, C++, PHP, Python, or any other NON-Microsoft language. If you want easy and fast to learn, ain't nothing better than Python (as I'm sure others here can attest to). Relatively fast (it is capable of being faster than Java by a sizable margin), exceptional amount of built in support libraries (all pretty well documented, and most have examples), easily expanded with C/C++, and not only encourages, but forces you to use good white-space practices (makes code easier to read later). http://python.org/ (tutorial here: http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html ) (built in libraries listed here: http://docs.python.org/modindex.html ). You can even get help from WITHIN python by just typing 'help(some_func_or_class_here)' (python allows interactive programming sessions - excellent for learning)

I have never been very interested in Python, but I will give it a chance. I guess something new to learn is always good.

I have been looking at python the last few days, its a pretty good language to learn so far. I spent about an hour on it yesterday doing the first few lessons of the tutorial. Got a small prime tester and other stuff, along with 1 average finder with a gui (not very advanced though, I used easy gui, wxwidgets is to complicated for me right now)

yeah, I have thought about python also. I have a good friend (proegssilb) who code almost exclusively python. He has made some interesting things with it also (Tablet 83 anyone?). PHP is good if you want to get into web stuff.

@Harq: You aren't really supposed to design/build the GUI by hand - talk about boring Use a tool like wxGlade to build the GUI with, then you just have to create the callback functions.