Don't gloss over the basics (Score 1)

I'm in an Intro to Visual Basic class now, and in the beginning the instructor started with a "jump right in" approach: he would show us how to design a form, add a couple lines to a button event, and voila! Most of the class thought it was magic. He never has bothered to give the definition of a variable, a method/function, or explain why it is that you can say strExampleString.Trim() and your string knows what to do. A thorough grounding in the conceptual basics will do your class a world of good.