I started programming around 8 years old and it was GWBasic. I remember taking home a book from the library that taught how to do the basics. (Such as printing text, moving stuff on the screen, taking input, etc) Then I moved up to QBasic right afterwards. My brother was learning it as well, so he taught me a few things and I started making some cool text games. After about 2 years of programming w/ that, I moved up to Visual Basic. The knowledge from QBasic actually helped me tremendously. All I had to learn was the controls and stuff which wasn''t too hard and was fun too. And now at the age of 14, I''m starting to program in OpenGL in VC++.
I strongly suggest in teaching him QBasic first, then moving him to VB, and then finaly to VC++. Because QBasic teaches you the math, screen sizes, pixels, etc. VBasic teaches you about how Windows works, controls, etc. And all of these are important to VC++. Plus there are tons and tons of resources for QBasic and VB on the net.
Just my two cents
Justin Eslinger
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