Week
Starting |
Monday |
Wednesday |
Friday |
| 8/30 |
Chapter 1-Introduction to Visual
Basic & Other Information-
Take Role & 1st day attendance
- What is Programming?
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What is a compiler?
- Visual Studio Express Edition
- Installing it
- File management / Windows Explorer
- Applied Technology minor
- Getting started with our 1st VB Program
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Importance of truly understanding the first few chapters
- Terms
- Don't underestimate the importance of knowing where you saved your program
- Using the compiler
- AWA - Alternate work assignments
- When to meet in the Lab (Dundee in Ross Hall)
- Designing a Program (Software Engineering)
- What is an algorithm?
- Flowcharts & Pseudocode
- More notes
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Link to download Visual Basic and some other tools.
Page 14. Writing your first Visual Basic
Project
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Set up workspace
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Start new project
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Set up Environment
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Plan
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Place Controls on
Form p. 19
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Set Properties p. 23
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Write Code p. 29
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Run p. 35
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Save & re-open p. 36
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Modify p. 38
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Meet in the lab, start our first walk-through VB program. |
| 9/6 |
Chapter 2 - User Interface Design - Controls and Events
- Make sure you read this chapter carefully it covers fundamentals that are the building blocks of everything else.
I'll go over an example of a small program. |
Do the Walkthroughs in chapter 2: Text Box Button Label List Box
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I'll go over the Flag
Viewer program & answer any questions
Read Chapter
3 for next time
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| 9/13 |
Chapter
3 - Variables, Constants, and Calculations
Flag viewer assignment due.
I'll come around and check these.
What is Critical Thinking?
Blooms Taxonomy
Start the Hands-On
Programming Example page 145 |
Continue with
Chapter 3
- Very important chapter
- Talk about strings
- Bring in Questions!!
Continue with the
Hands-On example
Assignment #2 - Very Very
Boards Page 158 |
Finish
Chapter 3
In-class example
(compound interest) |
| 9/20 |
Go over Calorie counter (image
of code at bottom of this page) |
Chapter 4
- Decisions and Conditions
Let's try a Loop problem: |
We covered IF statements, Functions and Procedures this week. Let's do a practice program with that on Friday in the Lab |
| 9/27 |
Image Consulting Example |
Finish
Chapter 4 |
Demonstrate a Case study
Example
Piece Work Calculator - 4.6, page 207 |
| 10/4 |
Chapter 5
- Menus
- Common Dialog Boxes
- Sub Procedures
- Function Procedures
Menu and Function Example - The extension of the piecework
Calculator from last class.
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Review for the exam |
Friday Exam 1 - Will be on: -
Chapters 1 thru 5
- If Statement
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Functions
- Procedures
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Boolean
- Case Statement
Review
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| 10/11 |
Chapter 6 - Multiform Projects |
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| 10/18 |
Chapter 7 - Lists, Loops, and
Printing
- Loops
- Do While
- Do Until
- For - Next LoopsClass example of the American to British Translations |
Continue with chapter 7 |
We can work on sorting
Write a simple program that sorts a file, we can use the egg file from way back, Use either bubble or selection sort.
Eggs.txt
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| 10/25 |
Chapter 8 - Arrays
- More organized way to store a lot of related data
- Some consider this the most complex topic of the course.
- Not that hard, just another way to store a lot of related data. |
Array examples in class. |
Let's compute the average of a list of numbers. Make sure you load the numbers into an array first. Then loop again and determine the average. We are using an array as practice.
List of Numbers |
| 11/1 |
Example implementation of an
array of Records. We'll look at 8-1, but we're also going
to read the data in from a file. So it's a little of
chapter 11 also. |
Continue with the previous
example, gathering some statistics of the data and determining
the poverty levels for problem 8-1 |
Let's look at 8-1 using a
2-d array instead of an array of records |
| 11/8 |
Continue with implementing
the 2-D array |
Chapter 11
Sequential Files
- Reading from a text file that is already on your computer
- Know How to append to a file,
close and reopen in append
... .=IO.File.AppendText("sample.txt") -> puts the write marker at the end of the file. |
Making a web page with
Visual Basic
Chapter 9
- Web Applications |
| 11/15 |
Let's do an old exam I dug
up, I want you to give it an honest try first.
Exam 2 |
Continue with the exam
review. |
Look at making
web
applications in VB do an example |
| 11/22
Thanksgiving Break this week |
Exam 2 November
22nd |
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| 11/29 |
Let's start the review. I'd like to go over more functions
and procedures.
Show example that uses a function. 5.3 page 249. |
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| 12/6 |
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| Final Exam will be on ???? |
