Successful Project In Visual Basic

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.

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