Programming in VB

Overall Course Objective:

To illustrate basic programming concepts and terminology using Visual Basic as an example.
To provide direction on how to learn a programming language using VB as an example.

Module	Objective	ECT	Terminology	Explanation	Summary	Exercises	Test
One	Introduction to VB	15 minutes	BASIC, GUI builder, RAD (Rapid Application Development)	Put the terms in context	Explanation in a nutshell
Two	The VB Environment	15 minutes	Projects, Files, Classes, Forms, Code Modules	Put the terms in context	Explanation in a nutshell		Create and open and a VB project. Add differnt types of files to the project
Three	Simple Program to find the max of three numbers	30 minutes	Forms, text boxes, command buttons, lables, events, code window, conditions		The student should be able to write and run the program. Try out the program with different numbers	Pick 2 other algorithms and try to implement them.	Describe how to write a program to find the maximum of 10 numbers
Four	Try to use form objects and build UI applications	30 minutes	Advanced UI components like radio buttons, combo boxes, drop downs	like a calculator	The student should be able to build a simple calculater to do addition in the class.	Extend the calculator built in the class to support division, multiplication and substraction.
Five	Wrap up	30 minutes		Discuss the next steps to learning VB. How to learn from books, sample programs, web sites etc. Discuss interest in programming, different languages, which ones the students would like to learn etc.