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Week 1 Lecture 2 (Chap 1) : Microsoft Visual Basic 2015

This document provides an introduction to Visual Basic 2015 programming, including a brief history of programming languages and an overview of Visual Basic .NET. It discusses how Visual Basic .NET makes it easy to create graphical user interface applications for Windows by using drag-and-drop controls. It also explains how Visual Basic 2015 applications work in an event-driven manner by responding to user input events like button clicks. Finally, it outlines different types of applications that can be created with Visual Basic 2015, such as Windows desktop, Windows Store, web, and database applications.

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Week 1 Lecture 2 (Chap 1) : Microsoft Visual Basic 2015

This document provides an introduction to Visual Basic 2015 programming, including a brief history of programming languages and an overview of Visual Basic .NET. It discusses how Visual Basic .NET makes it easy to create graphical user interface applications for Windows by using drag-and-drop controls. It also explains how Visual Basic 2015 applications work in an event-driven manner by responding to user input events like button clicks. Finally, it outlines different types of applications that can be created with Visual Basic 2015, such as Windows desktop, Windows Store, web, and database applications.

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Microsoft Visual Basic 2015

Week 1 Lecture 2
(chap 1)

Introduction to Visual
Basic 2015 Programming
1 Objectives

►Learn about the language of a computer.


►Explain the history of programming languages
►Examine high-level programming languages.
►See example code of some high-level
programming languages.
►Talk about VB.NET

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1 Programmers

►People who write programs.


►A computer program is designed and developed by
people known as computer programmers, or
developers
►Developers are people skilled in designing computer
programs and creating them using programming
languages
►Applications may consist of several computer
programs working together to solve a problem
►Developers write the code for programs using a
programming language
Chapter 1: Introduction to Visual Basic 2015 Programming 3
1 Programs

►The set of instructions that directs a computer to


perform tasks is called computer software, or a
computer program
►A computer program on a mobile device or
Windows 8 or Windows 10 computer is also called an
app

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1 Language of a Computer

►Machine Languages
• 0 (for on switch)
• 1 (for off switch)
• Tedious and prone to error
• Every computer directly understands its own
machine language.
• Early computers programmed in machine
language.

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1 Language of a Computer

6
1 A Brief History of Programming
Languages (continued)
►Assembly Languages
• More advanced than machine languages
• Mnemonics (memory aids)
• Examples: MUL b1, ax
• Require an assembler: Translates assembly
language instructions into machine language.
• Developed to make programmer’s job easier.

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1 Instructions in Assembly and Machine
Languages

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1 A Brief History of Programming
Languages (continued)
►High Level Languages
• Require Interpreter or compiler
►Interpreter translates high-level into machine code
line-by-line while program is running
►Compiler translates entire program before program
has run
• English like syntax, closer to spoken langauages
• Allow for object-oriented programming
►Programmer focuses on using objects to achieve the
program’s goal

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1 A Brief History of Programming
Languages (continued)
►Examples:
• Basic
• Pascal
• FORTRAN
• COBOL
• C/C++
• Java
• Python
• Perl

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1
Python Fortran 95
for intNum in range(1, 6): DO intNum = 1, N
a = b + intNum a = b + intNum
END DO

.NET Pascal
For intNum = 1 To 3 Step 1 for intNum := 1 to 3 do
a = b + intNum a = b + intNum;
Next intNum

C/C++
for(intNum = 1; intNum <= 3; intNum+=1) Ruby
a = b + intNum; 1.upto(5) do |counter|
a = b + intNum;

JAVA
for(intNum = 1; intNum <= 3; intNum+=1)
a = b + intNum;

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1 Visual Basic .NET

►Why VB .NET?
►What’s useful about VB .NET?
►In what areas can we use VB.NET?

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1 A walk down memory lane…

 1991, VB1 Debuts …


 1997, VB5 Debuts
 1998, VB6 Debuts
 2001, VB. NET Debuts
 2010, VB (10.0)
 2012, VB (11.0)
 2015, VB (14.0)
►Most VB.NET syntax is based on Basic, which is fairly
easy to understand

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1 Visual Basic .NET

►As you’ll see, most code is easy to understand and


looks a lot like English
►Visual Basic makes it very easy to create a Windows
program

►Thought Problem #1: What are some of the elements


you expect to see in a Windows program?

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1 Thought Problem #1 (soln)

►Elements:
• Window (form), button, textbox, label, radio
button, checkbox, dropdown listbox, slider ..e.t.c

►VB.NET makes it very simple to create a program with


all these elements
• Drag and drop these elements right into a window

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1 Example Program

► Simple Pacific Greeting program written in VB.NET


► Single window
► GUI Interface
• By the end of this course (if you work hard), you should
be able to create more sophisticated programs than
this one.

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1 Example Program
►This program probably took me a few minutes to write
using VB.NET
►If I tried to do it in C++, it would take a day at least!
• For those of you who’ve taken CS 111, remember
that everything you’ve ever written for that course
has a terminal interface rather than a graphical
interface
• Master VB.NET and you master programming the
Windows interface, which is the most popular user
interface in the world (by far!)

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Event-Driven Computer Programs
1 with a Graphical User Interface
►Most Visual Basic 2015 programs are event-driven
programs that communicate with the user through a
graphical user interface (GUI)
• A GUI usually consists of a window, containing a
variety of objects
►An event means the user has initiated an action that
causes the program to perform a type of processing in
response

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Event-Driven Computer Programs
1 with a Graphical User Interface
►For example:
• The user enters data into the program
• The user taps or clicks a button

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1 Input Operation

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1 Output Operation

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1 Types of Visual Basic 2015 Applications

►Windows Desktop application


• Program will run on a computer or other device
that supports the Windows GUI
►Windows Store app
• Designed to run on Windows 8 or Windows 10
computers and mobile devices
►Web application
• Uses ASP.NET 5 and runs on a web server

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1 Types of Visual Basic 2015 Applications
► Office/SharePoint application
• Automates and manipulates documents created using
Microsoft Office 2010 or Office 2013 and SharePoint
► Database application
• Written using ADO.NET 4.6 to reference, access, display, and
update data stored in a database
► Other types of applications include console applications, classes
for class libraries, certain controls to use in Windows
applications, reporting applications, LightSwitch business
applications using Silverlight, and device-specific applications

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