VB Outline
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Updated: Wednesday, February 05, 2003

Week 1 Introduction to Visual Basic. Discuss broad outlines of programming, discuss three categories of concepts: Computer hardware, Language Issues, and the Visual Basic API (or library). Discuss brief introduction to object oriented programming. Discuss VS.Net environment.

Reading: Chapter 1, Chapter 2. Read Chapter 3 through page 74.

Chapter 1 is background information and will not be tested. Chapter 2 is helpful to frame the problem solving basics for programming. Chapter 3 jumps right into VB.Net programming.
  

Week 2 General discussion of modern programming.

Numbers, Variables, Strings, I/O

Reading: Finish chapter 3.
 

Week 3 Complete chapter 3 and begin Chapter 4, Procedures

ReadingTo page 151.
 

Week 4  More Procedures


ReadingFinish chapter 4

Week 5 Finish Procedures / Functions

Reading

MIDTERM Monday Feb. 10
 

Week 6 Decisions, Chapter 5

Reading: Read the entire chapter, we will not spend time on the case study at the end of the chapter unless you have specific questions about it.
 

Week 7 Repetition, Chapter 6

ReadingRead the entire chapter, we will not spend time on the case study at the end of the chapter unless you have specific questions about it.
Week 8 Arrays, Chapter 7

Reading:
  

Week 9 Review sequential text files and look at additional Controls/Objects if time allows.

Reading:
 

Week 10 Review
 
Final
Exam