There must be a "Hello World" Program written in every programming language there is.  There is a very good reason for this.

This is a little off topic, but last night, I helped my 10-year old son download VB Express (with SQL Express of course).  There are some really neat starter kits out there.  We tried one and then I had him do a simple change on it and then ran the program again to see the change take place.  He liked it. We created a new project with a label and a button that when clicked would display "Hello World".  I then asked him to change the message and watched over his shoulder.  Since he seemed to pick that up, I told him to add another button that would change the message.  I left the room and he had placed two new buttons which changed the message text in the label control.  Even though this is very elementary stuff, I was proud that he was able to pick up on it so quickly.  The reason that he was able to pick up on it so quickly is that it was simple. The next time that you are trying to pick up on a skill, try doing something simple first. It may make everything easier.

We will eventually get to database programming, but we have some other hoops to jump through first.