Dan Mabbutt

• As the manager of a corporate technical training department, he created Visual Basic training for internal customers and for resale
• Continues to provide VB training both online and in person and ​to write about it in various capacities

Experience

Dan Mabbutt is a former writer for ThoughtCo who contributed articles on Visual Basic for 10 years. It was clear to him that Visual Basic was going to change programming forever the first time he saw it. As the manager of a corporate technical training department, he created Visual Basic training for internal customers and for resale. He continues to provide VB training both online and in person and to write about it in various capacities.

Education

• B.S. with honors in computer science from the University of Utah
• Earned a CNE (Certified Netware Engineer) when networks became mainstream in the 1990s.

Awards and Publications

• "Pro ASP.NET 4.5 in VB" (Apress, 2013)
• "Pro ASP.NET 4.0 in VB" (Apress, 2010)

ThoughtCo and Dotdash

ThoughtCo is a premier reference site focusing on expert-created education content. We are one of the top-10 information sites in the world as rated by comScore, a leading Internet measurement company. Every month, more than 13 million readers seek answers to their questions on ThoughtCo.

For more than 20 years, Dotdash brands have been helping people find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. We are one of the top-20 largest content publishers on the Internet according to comScore, and reach more than 30% of the U.S. population monthly. Our brands collectively have won more than 20 industry awards in the last year alone, and recently Dotdash was named Publisher of the Year by Digiday, a leading industry publication.