Mike Garrett - Elgin Community College

This course will use the .NET Version of Visual Basic

This course teaches how to program with Microsoft Visual Basic. You will learn to write Windows software using the various controls available in a graphical user interface, and how to best design programs using these controls. One important emphasis will be data access and manipulation with the available controls. Upon completing, you will be able to create and manipulate forms using text and picture boxes, buttons, lists, scroll bars, and menu bars. You will also be able to read and write data files, and know how to use third party toolbox additions to the language.

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Week	Date	Topic

1	08/29/2005	Introduction
	09/05/2005	Labor Day
2	09/12/2005	VB Controls
3	09/19/2005	Variables, Constants, and Calculations
4	09/26/2005	Conditions, Decisions
5	10/03/2005	Menus, Subroutines, and Functions
6	10/10/2005	Objects and Classes
7	10/17/2005	Lists, Loops, Printing
8	10/24/2005	Midterm Exam
9	10/31/2005	Arrays
10	11/07/2005	Web Forms
11	11/14/2005	Accessing Database Files
12	11/21/2005	Accessing Files and Streams
13	11/28/2005	Graphics
14	12/05/2005	Advanced Topics
15	12/12/2005	Final Exam

Prerequisite:
    CIS 105 Programming in BASIC or
    CIS 121 Programming in Pascal or
    CIS 124 Introduction to C++ Programming

Textbooks:
    Programming in Visual Basic .Net, Bradley and Millspaugh, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, ISBN 0-07-245903-4

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