It was a small handbook I got hold of at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Gol park, Calcutta around 1998. The book was Visual Basic 4 Tips and Tricks or something like that. Then I had just started my NIIT’s GNIIT course. The first semester had started which was about DOS and all other crap. I had good knowledge of QBasic syntax before this. Anyway I had done lot of DBase III Plus programming and even played with C using the K&R - The C Programming language. Therefore, the syntax and fun that I learned from book got me excited to play with real VB4. That was the first time I had made windows program and a MsgBox “Hello world”. Wow. I had learned this too easy language syntax for RAD within the next 3 months. We had a picture box. A grid based windows form editor. Later in after an year I had to enter Visual C++ SDK programming followed by the official study of RAD using VB4. ha.