B.S., Computer Science, University of Utah
Dan Mabbutt is a former writer for ThoughtCo who contributed articles on Visual Basic (VB) for 10 years. He started his programming career with Visual Basic using version 1.0, and he has the diskettes to prove it.
As the former manager of a corporate technical training department, he created Visual Basic training for internal customers and for resale, and provided VB training both online and in person. He also co-authored two programming books, " Pro ASP.NET 4.5 in VB" and "Pro ASP.NET 4.0 in VB."
Dan graduated from the University of Utah with a B.S. in computer science. He earned his Certified Netware Engineer (CNE) designation (now known as Certified Novell Engineer) when networks became mainstream in the 1990s.
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Visual Basic