[throwaway675309]

Maybe but it depends on what you mean by "back in the day". Because back in the day a lot of computers came preinstalled with some version of a BASIC interpreter, And some machines literally booted into basic by default, so programming became just a natural extension of the users daily computing process.

However, If you're referring to 2012 as back in the day, visual basic was by far and away completely deprecated by that point, if anything people would've been using Visual Studio community edition to do net programming and maybe visualbasic.net