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Programming Concepts

Module Code : CMV6107 Class Contact Hours: 45 hours

(Lecture 15 hours) (Laboratory/Tutorial 30 hours)

Module Value: 1 Textbook: Exploring Microsoft Visual Basic

6.0 by Carlotta B. Eaton, Prentice Hall

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Content Area

Introduction Event driven and procedural programming Visual Objects Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Simple Applications Project Project Window Toolbox objects Executable file

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Content Area

Data Types Simple data types

Operations Operators, expression and statements Formatted input/output Characters and string manipulation

Program Structures Selection, Repetition Functions, procedures and forms

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Content Area

Data Structures Arrays Records and Files Event Handling

Advanced Features Database Internet

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Introduction

Event driven and procedural programming Visual Objects Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

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Application Programs

Program - detailed set of instructions for a computer to execute

Application programs (applications or apps) - self-contained collection of programs that perform a task for the end user

Programming language - formal language used to give instructions to computers

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History of Programming Languages

Machine language Procedure-oriented languages Object-oriented languages Event-driven languages Natural languages

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History of Programming Languages

Machine Language different for each computer processor

Procedure-Oriented Languages FORTRAN COBOL Pascal C Ada

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History of Programming Languages

Object-oriented languages Smalltalk C++ Ada 95

Event-driven languages Visual Basic most Visual languages

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History of Programming Languages

Natural languages computer will accept a user’s native or natural

language, such as English Researchers continue to work in this area

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Background of Visual Basic

BASIC Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code By John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz Designed to teach programming to beginners BASIC language interpreter, one of Microsoft’s

first products

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Background of Visual Basic

BASIC Included with DOS QBASIC - included with DOS Version 5 - subset of BASIC

Visual Basic 1992 - Visual Basic 1 for Windows 3 Visual Basic 4 - for Windows 95 Visual Basic 5 - for Office 97 Visual Basic 6 - for Windows 98 & Office 2000

Visual BASIC .NET

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Visual Basic Editions

Learning Edition Professional Edition Enterprise Edition Included in Visual Studio suite (analogy

Office for programmers)

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Visual Basic Editions

Other Visual Basic packaging options VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic Visual Basic Scripting Edition Control Creation Edition

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Toolbox

Form Designer Window

Code Editor Window

Project Explorer

Properties window

Form Layout Window

Visual Basic 6 Interactive Development Environment

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Elements of the Integrated Development Environment

Application icon Application name Context menus Controls Current project Design view mode Title bar

Major windows Form Designer Form Layout Toolbox Project Explorer Object Browser Properties Code Editor Immediate, Locals, Watch

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Introduction to Visual Basic

Hands-On Exercise 1 (P.12-P.15) Start Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Open the Welcome Project Open the Welcome Form Run the Welcome Project End the Welcome Project Exit Visual Basic

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Get Help When You Need It

MSDN Library Microsoft on the Web Learning Edition of Visual Basic 6.0

Visual Basic 6.0 in Action book Learn Visual Basic Now multimedia tutorial

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MSDN Library

Topic PaneNavigation Pane

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MSDN Library

Visual Basic Documentation Documentation Map What’s New Programmer’s Guide Samples Reference Guidebooks Component Tools Guide Data Access Guide

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Get Help from the CD

Hands-On Exercise 2 (p.19 – p.24) Open the Calc Sample Application Run the Calc Sample Application Get Help from the MSDN Library Add a Topic to the Favorites List Search for a Definition Exit Help and Visual Basic

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Help from the Web

Pull down Help menu Select Help from the Web

or www.microsoft.com/vbasic

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Get Help from the Web

Hands-On Exercise 3 (p.25 – p.29) Use the Free Stuff Page to Update VB Install the Update (optional) Product News Frequently Asked Questions Online Support

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Use the Right Tool for the Job

Microsoft Office Suite Word - word processing Excel - spreadsheet PowerPoint - presentation Access - database

OLE = Object Linking and Embedding Use Visual Basic to create a specialized,

customized application

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Summary ...

Event-driven languages is a major improvement in programming languages

Editions include Learning Edition, Professional Edition, and Enterprise Edition

CD-ROM includes the MSDN Library, and many sample programs

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Summary

Integrated Development Environment includes Form Designer, Form Layout Code Edition, Project Explorer Properties and Object Browser

Choose the right tool for the job Visual Basic is the glue that binds Windows

objects together

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End of Lecture