I was curious if there is a similar way of using VB. A combination of readily made functions that you just paste in and move around, and then go to the code to adjust it...
In a way, yes, that's what Visual Basic is. The visual part rather.
You drag pieces around and do very little actual writing of code. It produces incredibly inefficient code, but it is a piece of cake to write programs for it especially with complex interfaces.
The question I have is: What programming language do you guys recomend then, if I want to learn a quick, useful and easy language?
I don't know if it's a ringing endorsement, but Prolific is really getting behind a language called Rebol. Now, you have to write it all yourself (no automatic code writing), but it seems very accessible.
BTW, is it C++ Jim uses for the Aquarium?
Yes. I'm not sure if he uses all (any?) of the OOP aspects of C++.