MS Visual Basics 6.0
 

I was thinking about getting into programming. Does anyone have a good and free online tutorial to this so I don't waste my money buying a manual that I'll lose in a week?

I don't know about online manuals, but you can probably find some textbooks in pdf format on kazaa.

visual basic is one of the easiest languages once you get the hang of it. I really enjoy programming in it.

A good tutorial can be found here: http://www.vbtutor.net/vbtutor.html