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Message: <blockquote data-quote="towngen" data-source="post: 178229" data-attributes="member: 1528">Personally, I wouldn't recommend trying to do anything with Object Oriented programming concepts at all just yet.  Having just declared your first global variable yesterday, I think it would be prudent to get comfortable with programming first.  Then worry about implementing OO classes later.If I were you, I would go to a used book store and buy a copy of one of those "teach yourself VB in 21 days" type books.  Then go through that whole book and do all the examples it talks about.  Don't just skim through it, you need to actually type in the examples they provide.  There is something about actually doing it which makes it sink in better.  By the end of the book, you should be able to write this program easily.After you've written several programs of larger and larger complexity, you'll start to notice that the programs get harder to manage.  You'll spend lots of time trying to track down where a global gets written to and trying to figure out what is overwriting the value you KNOW you put in there just a few lines of code before.  This is when the it pays to know OO programming.  It takes a little longer to write (not a lot extra really once you're used to it), but writing programs using OO programming techniques helps make the complexity of large programs more manageable.</blockquote>