Course Description: Visual Basic .Net is an
object-oriented programming language that is part of the .Net Microsoft suite.
It provides a graphical programming
environment used to create applications for Microsoft Windows and the web.
Students will learn how to plan, create and debug interactive graphical user
interfaces based on Object Oriented Programming
design and analysis techniques. This is an introductory programming level
course that goes over the basics of programming
concepts such as Variables, Conditionals, Repetitions, and Arrays.
After finishing this course students will be able to build small scale
applications with Windows Forms as an interface.
The material covered in this class will help students in passing Microsoft
certification exams.
Software
Visual Studio 2010 Academic (same as Professional)
will be provided starting from Spring 2012.
We provide this software Free of charge for students enrolled in online classes
or those wishing to work at home.
It is the student’s responsibility to install and maintain the software.
This software comes with no expiration date.
Note that if you want to work at home, then it is YOUR
responsibility to get the software installed.
If you are in an online class, then you must obtain the software and install
it, and make sure you established a way
to connect to the internet at least 3 times a week.
Textbook
The following book has good coverage of theory and is aimed towards
beginner/Intermediate students.
We will start using it as of Spring 2012.
Starting
out with VB 2010th edition, by Tony Gaddis and Kip Irvine.
Addison Wesley Higher Education 2011.
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-611340-9
Please check the SMC bookstore for the latest edition and ISBN used.
The SMC bookstore site is www.smc.edu/bookstore
Schedule
Note that this is a tentative schedule and the topics may change.
For Online classes, the same material will be covered in 12 weeks, and for
Winter/Summer, in 6 weeks.
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Week
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Material
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1
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Course
Overview
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2
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Variables
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3
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Data
Types and Constants
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4
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Decision
Making and conditional statements: Select Case
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5
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Repetition
structures and For-Next Loops
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6
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Do
Loops
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7
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Debugging
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8
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Writing
and calling user defined Procedures and Functions
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9
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Passing
Variables
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10
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Access
Modifiers
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11
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Arrays
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12
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Dynamic
Arrays
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13
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Arrays
Reference
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14
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String
Processing
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15
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File
Access
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16
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Final
Exam
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