To finish my Associates degree in programming this summer, I need to take Cobol I and II and Visual Basic.

My knowledge of the two is this. Cobol is on its way out, and Visual Basic is pretty easy to write stuff in, thus alot of the virus that we get.

Can anyone give me some input on learning these languages and possibly using them in the Linux world. For example, learning Visual Basic, could help me with QT, correct?

thanks