What could better than Visual Studio?

How about FREE COPIES of the following tools:
*Visual Basic 2005 Express
*Visual C# 2005 express edition
*Visual Web Developer 2005 Expres edition
*SQL Server 2005 Express edition

All available @ http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/

At that price, who needs to settle for inferior "free" software? Get the real deal today!

>If you can't even read a tutorial on Python, then VB is far beyond your grasp.

With python, you don't have a set of pre-built widgets that you can arrange visually and then go back and write the glue code for. It's all-or-nothing. The great thing for casual users is that the visual studio toolset hides most of the complexity from them, thereby making programming more accessible.