Multiple choice technology programming languages Inventor of Visual Basic Grace Hopper Anders Hejlsberg Alan Cooper John Backus Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself C Correct answer Explanation Alan Cooper invented Visual Basic and is considered the 'father of Visual Basic' for his work on the visual programming paradigm. Grace Hopper pioneered COBOL, Anders Hejlsberg created J++ and C#, and John Backus created FORTRAN.