The First Step to your Developing Career Hello World

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If you're thinking about becoming a game or application developer, whether in the future or next week, every developer starts with the most basic program; Hello World. That's right, even Steve Jobs and Bill Gates did this at one time or another!

Things You Will Need

Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition, it's the blue one.

Step 1

Open Visual Basic and click on New Project at the very top left of the page.

Step 2

Click on Windows Forms Applications, again on the top left.

Step 3

Double-click on the words "Form1" at the top of the box

Step 4

You will get some code, it should look like this:

Public Class Form1

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
*
End Sub
End Class

You won't have the asterix but that is where you will put you command in.

Step 5

Right before End Sub, type ("Hello World")

Step 6

Click the green play arrow in the top center of the screen.

Step 7

Your code should show up.

Congratulations! You've just made your first program. This will hopefully be the beginning of a wonderful relationship with Visual Basic.