Description:

This text will be useful for students on a wide range of courses such as ‘A’ Level Computing. It assumes no knowledge of programming and covers everything needed to write a large program.

  • Part One goes through all the main programming concepts carefully.
  • Part Two covers a variety of topics which students will find useful in their project work.
  • Part Three goes through the design and coding of a sample project.
  • All the material covered in Part One and the project in Part Three can be done using Version 4 or higher of Visual Basic. Some topics in Part Two need Version 5 or higher.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Part One – Basic Topics

Chapter 1 – Introducing Visual Basic

Chapter 2 – Working with Controls

Chapter 3 – Working with Data

Chapter 4 – Selection

Chapter 5 – Loops

Chapter 6 – Handling Strings, Dates and Time

Chapter 7 – Procedures Chapter

8 – Arrays

Chapter 9 – Records

Chapter 10 – Files

Part Two – Further Topics

Chapter 11 – Debugging and Error Handling

Chapter 12 – Sending Output to the Printer

Chapter 13 – Menus

Chapter 14 – Graphics

Chapter 15 – Relational Databases

Chapter 16 – Visual Basic and the Internet

Part Three – The Project

Chapter 17 – Introduction and Analysis

Chapter 18 – Design: Forms, Reports, Files and Data Validation

Chapter 19 – Design and System Maintenance: Modular Structure

Chapter 20 – Coding: Forms, Standard Modules and Utilities

Chapter 21 – Coding: Membership

Chapter 22 – Coding: Starting a Game

Chapter 23 – Coding: Finishing a Game

Chapter 24 – Appraisal

Appendices

Index