Earlier today I posted about grown up things, like politics and money. Now it’s time for nerdy things — specifically, Visual Basic.

I first came into contact with VB when I was either 15 or 16. My then-boyfriend was actually very smart, even though all he did was get high. Heh. One day he surprised me with a disc and told me he made me a present. If my memory serves me well, I thought it was a CD and tried to play it in my boombox. Turns out, it was a CD-ROM with a little program he’d made on it, to display RGB and hexadecimal values when I made colors. Web design was just a hobby for me back in the day, so I didn’t have anything as neat as Dreamweaver or EditPlus. I worked with Notepad and coded everything by hand. If I wanted a particular color, I had to Google for it.

The program he made me was so simple and yet very helpful. I asked him how the fuck he’d done something so cool — because doing things wasn’t normally his thing, you see — and he said he’d been playing around with Visual Basic and had made it for me using that software.

That ex-boyfriend is long gone, but my curiosity about Visual Basic never left me. When it came up that I had to take some kind of programming class for my degree, I didn’t hesitate to take the Visual Basic course.

This is my last semester. I’ve taken plenty of Flash/ActionScript classes, so I’m seeing a lot of similarities. Oddly enough, so far VB seems a lot easier to use. You really don’t have to do a lot of memorizing. Of course, I say this now and maybe a couple weeks down the road I’ll be eating my words, but hey.

Maybe it’s my history with other programming languages, but even the lab assignment — with virtually no instruction — is going to be a piece of cake. The egomaniac in me is hoping I’m the only one in my class who gets it done.

Edit: After writing this post, I went to do the lab… and discovered the instructions are in little charts. So much for my egomania.