Why choose this course?
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to Visual Basic .NET.
It assumes the student has no knowledge of Visual Basic or computer programming at all but they must have access to a computer and either Visual Studio.NET or Visual Basic.NET installed. As with all our computer courses, they enable the student to purchase the software required at a heavily discounted price (academic pricing). More information can be obtained about this from the school. By the end of the course, the student should be able to easily understand all the major aspects of Visual Basic.NET and use it to produce their own windows based applications.
Is this course right for me?
If you are a programmer experienced in html but want ot complement your knowledge with knowledge of visual basic this course is apt for you. Visual basic is more sophisticated than html and can produce more sophisticated websites.
This subject has 12 lessons as follows:
Lesson 1. Introduction
Understanding the basic concept of computer programming and how it fits in with the .NET framework.Lesson 2. Variables
Understanding how computer programs store values and how they are accessed.Lesson 3. Understanding conditional statements
Understanding how conditional statements are used to effect the flow of a program.Lesson 4. I/O handling
Learn how to create, read and write files used by your VB.NET application. Also understand how to send information to a printerLesson 5. Controls and Objects: An Introduction
Understanding the basics of controls and objects.Lesson 6. Structured Programming using Modules
Understanding the benefits of using modules to structure your program.Lesson 7. Properties, methods, events & classes
Understanding properties, methods and events and how they are used in classes.Lesson 8. Inheritance
Understanding how inheritance is used in VB.NET to re-use code.Lesson 9. Polymorphism
Understanding how to use polymorphism to perform the same functions in different ways.Lesson 10. Using controls
Understanding the different controls in VB.NET and how to use them.Lesson 11. Debugging
Understanding how to identify, trap and fix errors in your program.Lesson 12. Developing a complete VB.NET application
Understanding how to put all your skills together to create a stand alone program.
Visual Basic .NET, the next generation of Visual Basic, is designed to be the easiest and most productive tool for creating .NET applications, including Windows applications, Web Services, and Web applications.
While providing the traditional ease-of-use of Visual Basic development, Visual Basic .NET also allows optional use of new language features. Inheritance, method overloading, structured exception handling, and free threading all make Visual Basic a powerful object-oriented programming language. Visual Basic .NET fully integrates with the .NET Framework and the Common Language Runtime, which together provide language interoperability, simplified deployment, enhanced security, and improved versioning support.
