Where to find programming challenges for VB .Net 2010?

John Doe

I haven't programmed much in years and due to that my skills have suffered a lot. I want to program a lot now, I want to make games (not necessarily with VB but I'm using it because I just read a book on it and I like it), but I need to improve my skills. What I need is a book or a website geared for VB, which has a list of possible challenges(problems, exercises, homework, etc.) that can be solved in VB, and are structured for improving your skills. I don't want anything math heavy, I only know Algebra 1, and I'm not too good with math at the moment. It should start from really simple and easy for a programmer, then get more difficult and build on different programming areas (if statements, for...next loops, do...while loops, events, etc.). In school we had a book on VB which had these exercises, and it was really good at improving our skills, but I don't know what its name was. All I know is it had a black, white, and blue cover, with no graphics and this was in 2005. Maybe someone could find this book for me, I haven't been able to.

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Sam Hobbs15y ago
Your question is not clear in the sense that you say you want to make games, but the rest of your question is about more general challenges. So I am not sure what you want. In my opinion, there are many ways to learn programming. I think that learning to write a desktop program can prepare you for writing smart phone programs. If you were to write a Silverlight program then that can be even easier to convert for use in a Windows Phone 7 phone. The following are a few unrelated sites that I have bookmarked. I am sure there are many more sites that would help you but I hope these help.
I assume you have searched as in this but there are many usefull books in the results.
Mahesh Chand15y ago
I would give you a better idea. If you want to get into games development, I recommend smart devices games - iPhone, Windows Phone or Android. Reason? You can make any stupid game and still can sell. There are aways somebody looking for something. Also, this is a new technology so more challanging and have brighter future.