I'm assuming that you are learning the older VB6 style Visual Basic as opposed to the newer object oriented .net Visual Basic. Eventually you will need to become pretty knowledgeable in the area of OOPS (object oriented programming). C++ is an object oriented language and is used heavily in the gaming industry. VB6 is pseudo object oriented while VB.NET (part of the .net framework) is full object oriented.
I'd keep learning programming concepts using your VB and then maybe later take a JAVA class or two. If you get JAVA down, you will get OOPS down. You could, of course, download the trial version of Microsoft's Visual Studio and play around with VB.NET and C# but those .net languages are not used in gaming too much. They're more suited to large, enterprise related business applications. Plus, you can use JAVA right now to start creating games which you can actually post on a website. By the time you get to taking C++, you would probably be fully versed in OOPS. You should also take a few math courses especially if you want to get into 3D gaming where math is used pretty heavily.
VB's a good start though. VB.NET is even better. You'll probably see .NET classes in your course catalog. .NET even has it's own visual C++ language which would be helpful to learn too.
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