Free-Basic anyone?

Anything above VB6 is broken. VB 2005 was a horrible exercise in trying to mix event-driven- and object oriented programming, and I don't think there's a stable version of VB 2008 yet. VB6, one the other hand, is fantastic - pure, event-driven programming.

I'm afraid to say that I did learn VB6 at college (though the English version of college - years 12 and 13. I believe that what Americans call "college" is what we call "University").

I'm learning Visual Basic in school right now. Pretty easy to grasp.
Next year's course involves Java, so hopefully enough students sign up for it so that it takes place.