I highly find VB more didactic than any language till that point that I'm going to buy two books in amazon in this week
Trust me, it's not about how easy, or how much it refers to your coding style when you're talking about VB.
It is just not worth it to learn it in comparison with c++, with c++ you can do so much more, its so much powerful.
Even if you want to write you're epic "irc bot", (ande,joepie,darkcocke (mostly ande, before he kicks my arse) wrote an pretty successful one in VB.net tough but...) you will ALWAYS need to install .net runtime (as i expect you coding in vb.net).
And also the power, you can create a c++ app as slow as an vb.net app, but when you do it the right way, it can be SO MUCH more powerful.
We/I , am not blaming vb.net, or you, but most of us started with something similar to vb and know we know, we could have started c++ in the same time and be as good as we are now but in very less time (every minute you need to enjoy, and you enjoy more with c++ than vb).
So do me favor, and reconsider you're choice to start vb, if you want to create very easy stuff, do it, if you want to create smart,fast, powerful software go on with something like c++ instead mate