This book is a straightforward guide to the Visual Basic programming language and programming techniques. It covers all of the practical programming skills that may be required up to GCSE level and for those at AS Level with limited exposure to VB. It is suitable for both experienced programmers, students or individuals with very little or no programming experience in other languages.
It teaches basic syntax and programming techniques and introduces a number of useful features such as:
Developing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) with the visual designer in visual studio. SQLite, which enables the creation and processing of a database from within a Visual Basic .NET program. This provides an alternative to writing to a text file when data needs to be stored and retrieved. The Visual Studio debugger, which can be used to help find elusive logic errors.
Chapter 1: Input, output and assignment
Chapter 2: Strings and numbers
Chapter 3: Selection
Chapter 4: Iteration
Chapter 5: Arrays and tuples
Chapter 6: Validating user input
Chapter 7: Searching and sorting
Chapter 8: Procedures and functions
Chapter 9: Reading and writing files
Chapter 10: Databases and SQL
Chapter 11: Using SQLite
Chapter 12: Introduction to the GUI
Chapter 13: Developing a Windows application
Chapter 14: Program design
Chapter 15: Testing and debugging
Sylvia has a first class degree in Computer Science from Sheffield University and a PGCE from Cambridge University. She worked as a programmer for 2 years before a 23-year career in teaching Computing A-Level at a sixth form college, the last 11 years as a head of department. She is a founder member of CAS and has written a number of A-Level Computing textbooks. Sylvia's examining experience stretches over 20 years and with a number of exam boards.
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