special-ed....sexybadgirl is quite correct. Sloppy programmers make sloppy code. Period. You are a sloppy programmer, as we all found out with that last vb port scanner project you showed us.
Now, if you want to talk **** about professional VB programmers you can talk to Quad and myself. As I stated when I replied to your last bit of posted VB code....good coders don't name their error handlers after comic book characters, they comment their code, they document their code, they actually create design documents, indent their code for readability, etc.


As sexybadgirl said, pick the language for the job. If you want to learn a language via only free resources I'd highly recommend perl (http://perl.oreilly.com, http://www.perl.org, http://www.cpan.org) or java (http://java.sun.com). Both have loads of free resources online that are high quality, as well as can be learned and developed with little trouble on both windows and *nix environments. The c, c++, etc resources online are questionable in most places. Really if you wanted to learn c++ I think the only way to go and do it properly is with stroustrups books. They teach you the syntax of the language as well as the type of stuff you should watch out for and avoid doing. While the learning x in 21 days books are ok, they tend to vary on the quality of code they teach you. I really am beginning to have problems with people learning C first....I find that C programmers who go to C++ do structured C++ (C++ written as C) which is complete and utter crap. You can get around this as long as you take the time to learn proper programming procedure. If you need I can recommend resources for quite a few languages...books, online classes, all kinds of goodies.