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Learning to Program in VB

S Langfield ISBN: 9781910523186

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Contents:

  • 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

The answers pack is available as a free download.

Learning to Program in Visual Basic

Publication 5th December 2019. 136pp

Available in printed and digital formats. Order digital copies from our ebook partners Classoos

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.

Questions and exercises are included in every chapter. Answers to these as well as over 120 VB programs for all the examples and exercises given in the book are provided to students and teachers in a free pack available to download on our website.

What people say...

Your AQA A-Level book is, in my opinion, the best one available and the one we use.

Mr David Isaacs. Department of Computer Science, Shoreham Academy

A fantastic set of resources to support both teachers and students in the delivery of the new computing curriculum. We would be lost without it.

Catherine Williams. Head of Department, St Bede's Inter-Church School

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    Contents:

    • 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

    The answers pack is available as a free download.

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