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COLLEGE

Introduction to
Visual Basic
Objectives

 Machine language vs.. High-level


language
 Procedure-oriented, object-oriented,
and event-driven languages
 Background of Visual Basic
 VB Integrated Development
Environment
 Online documentation and Help features
Application Programs
Program - detailed set of instructions for
a computer to execute
Application programs (applications or
apps) - self-contained collection of
programs that perform a task for the
end user
Programming language - formal
language used to give instructions to
computers
History of Programming
Languages

 Machine language
 Procedure-oriented languages
 Object-oriented languages
 Event-driven languages
 Natural languages
History of Programming
Languages

 Machine Language
 different for each computer processor
 Procedure-Oriented Languages
 FORTRAN
 COBOL
 Pascal
 C
 Ada
History of Programming
Languages

 Object-oriented languages
 Smalltalk
 C++
 Ada 95
 Event-driven languages
 VisualBasic
 most Visual languages
History of Programming
Languages

 Natural languages
 computer will accept a user’s native
or natural language, such as English
 Researchers continue to work in this
area
Background of Visual
Basic
 BASIC
 Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic
Instruction Code
 By John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz
 Designed to teach programming to
beginners
 BASIC language interpreter, one of
Microsoft’s first products
Background of Visual
Basic
 BASIC
 Included with DOS
 QBASIC - included with DOS Version 5 -
subset of BASIC
 Visual Basic
 1992 - Visual Basic 1 for Windows 3
 Visual Basic 4 - for Windows 95
 Visual Basic 5 - for Office 97
 Visual Basic 6 - for Windows 98 & Office 2000
Visual Basic 6 Interactive Development Environment

Project
Toolbox Explorer

Form
Designe
r
Window
Propertie
s window

Code
Editor
Window

Form
Layout
Window
Exploring Copyright 1999 10
Elements of the Integrated
Development Environment

 Application icon  Major windows


 Application name  Form Designer
 Form Layout
 Context menus
 Toolbox
 Controls
 Project Explorer
 Current project  Object Browser
 Design view mode  Properties
 Title bar  Code Editor
 Immediate, Locals, Watch
Work On Visual Basic

 Start Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0


 Open the Welcome Project
 Open the Welcome Form
 Run the Welcome Project
 End the Welcome Project
 Exit Visual Basic

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