Syllabus for course 1493, Introduction to Visual Basic
by Brent P. Newhall (jemeret@geocities.com)
http://bounce.to/visual-basic

Getting Started (Skill 1)

• What is Visual Basic?
• Getting used to the Visual Basic environment
• What can I do with the VB environment?
• Running your application
• Saving your project

Simple Controls (Skill 3)

• Command buttons
• Text boxes
• Labels
• Option buttons
• Check boxes
• Frames
• Properties of controls (e.g. (Name), Caption, Text, and Font)
• Naming conventions
• Program: Telephone Order Form
• Note: Read the instructions!

A Quick Aside

• The history of BASIC
• What Visual Basic can and can't do

Programming (Skills 4 and 6)

• What is code, and why do we need it?
• Getting to the code
• Some examples of code
• Case-sensitivity
• Variables
• Arrays
• Program: Trip into the Future
• Note: Change control names before coding!

More Controls (Skill 3, Skill 9)

• List boxes, Combo boxes
• Picture boxes
• Timers
• Scroll bars
• Random Numbers
• Message Boxes
• Program: The World's Ugliest Demo

Menus and Toolbars (Skill 5)

• Menu Editor
• Program: Greeter

Good Program Design

• Why should I care how well-designed my program is?
• The dangers of spaghetti code
• Fast algorithms
• Readability
• Top-down versus bottom-up

Designing a Program

• The project specification
• Designing the interface
• Designing the code with pseudocode
• Writing the code

Level II Syllabus

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