I started on VB5/6 and I wouldn't recommend it now, but I believe the language is not that important but the general concepts. Vb6 is a weird language nowadays because is very bad at OOP, is not functional, etc.
Another reason I'd discourage it, is because the language is tied to the IDE/editor and is very difficult to do something without it. Also there is not opensource community around vb6 and there is not much code to look at or to contribute in github. Even if the 'new project' dialog offers you several types of applications the language is very limited to desktop applications and com components.
VB.Net is very good and modern language and it has some interesting features.
I'd rather introduce programming in a nix environment using the unix way, write a shebang here and pick the language you would like to use. Learn file descriptors, stdin stdout stderr, process exit status, pipes, etc. Learn to write small libraries and programs that solve very specifics problems.
Another reason I'd discourage it, is because the language is tied to the IDE/editor and is very difficult to do something without it. Also there is not opensource community around vb6 and there is not much code to look at or to contribute in github. Even if the 'new project' dialog offers you several types of applications the language is very limited to desktop applications and com components.
VB.Net is very good and modern language and it has some interesting features.
I'd rather introduce programming in a nix environment using the unix way, write a shebang here and pick the language you would like to use. Learn file descriptors, stdin stdout stderr, process exit status, pipes, etc. Learn to write small libraries and programs that solve very specifics problems.