Case Study in VB.Net
 

I'm having difficulty writing a program that would accept an input for your birthday (month, year) and tell you your zodiac sign. I having difficulty with the syntax in VB.Net because our instructor assinged us a language to create our case study and he gave VB.Net to me... I have to study the language from scratch... I can't seem to find ebooks on the net...

Another case study i'm having difficulty with is how to write a program (using for loops) that would output the following:
*
**
***
****
*****

1
12
123
1234
12345

Thanks in advance for any help!