This is the forst time that I have heard of this program. I understand that it is a program language and helps with the development for creating applications. But when would someone use this and how does it compare with some of the other programming languages such as Java

I'm assuming you are referring to the Visual Basic programming language. So I moved this from Computers for Beginners (programming is not a beginners topic).

VB has been around for a number of years. It's a prgoramming language and development platform for developing Windows based applications. Micrsoft has eveovled to the .NET platform for development though which uses Visual Studio as the development platform.

Java is a platform independent langugae used primarily for web pages and mobile devices.

What is your interest?