Learn Visual Basic Professional Edition - A College Prep Programming Tutorial

LEARN VISUAL BASIC - PROFESSIONAL EDITION is a comprehensive college prep programming tutorial covering object-oriented programming, the Visual Basic integrated development environment, building and distributing Windows applications using the Windows Installer, exception handling, sequential file access, graphics, multimedia, advanced topics such as web access, printing, and HTML help system authoring. The tutorial also introduces database applications (using ADO .NET) and web applications (using ASP.NET). This curriculum was used in a major university's introductory Visual Basic course for over a decade. The focus of LEARN VISUAL BASIC is to use the objects and capabilities of Visual Basic to build a wide variety of useful desktop applications. Students will also develop their own objects. Some of the applications built include: Stopwatch, Calendar Display, Loan Repayment Calculator, Flash Card Math Game, Database Input Screen, Statistics Calculator, Tic-Tac-Toe Game, Capital City Quiz, Information Tracker (with plotting), Blackjack, Line, Bar and Pie charts, a version of the first video game ever - Pong, and a Telephone Directory (Project Screen Shots).  LEARN VISUAL BASIC is presented using a combination of over 850 pages of color self-study notes and over 100 Visual Basic practical examples and applications. To grasp the concepts presented in LEARN VISUAL BASIC, you should possess a working knowledge of Windows and have had some exposure to programming concepts. LEARN VISUAL BASIC requires a Microsoft Windows 7 or the Windows 8 operating system. This tutorial is compatible with Visual Basic 2012 Professional Edition. The Visual Basic source code and all needed multimedia files are available for download from the publisher's website (KidwareSoftware.com) after you register the book.