Break through to improved results with MyProgrammingLab® MyProgrammingLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program that truly engages students in learning. It helps students better prepare for class, quizzes, and exams--resulting in better performance in the course--and provides educators a dynamic set of tools for gauging individual and class progress. And, MyProgrammingLab comes from Pearson, your partner in providing the best digital learning experiences. MyProgrammingLab for Starting Out with Visual Basic 2012 is a total learning package. Through the power of practice and immediate personalized feedback, MyProgrammingLab helps students fully grasp the logic, semantics, and syntax of programming. Instructors using MyProgrammingLab can manage all assessment needs in one program, and easily assign auto-graded homework. Students have the flexibility to practice and self-assess while receiving feedback and tutorial aids. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyProgrammingLab does not come packaged with this content.

If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyProgrammingLab search for ISBN-10: 0133441873 / ISBN-13: 9780133441871. That package includes ISBN-10: 0133128083 / ISBN-13: 9780133128086 and ISBN-10: 0133452344 / ISBN-13: 9780133452341. MyProgrammingLab is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor. The book is completely updated for Visual Basic 2012 --This book is designed for use with Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio Express 2012 For Windows Desktop. The following list summarizes some of the most significant new features of VB 2012: Introduction of the Async method modifier and the Await statement, for asynchronous programming Introduction of iterators, to perform custom iterations over collections, lists, and arrays A new call hierarchy window in Visual Studio that allows you to display all calls to and from a selected method, property, or constructor Caller information attributes that allow you to obtain information about the caller of a method You can now use the Global keyword in a Namespace statement, to define a namespace out of the project''s root namespace By default, arguments are passed by value, and the ByVal modifier for a parameter is no longer required Introduction of the StatusStrip Control for Displaying User Messages --The StatusStrip control is introduced in Chapter 2 as a means for displaying user messages. In many situations, the StatusStrip control is more effective than a message box because it does not interrupt the user''s workflow. A New Sequence of VideoNotes has been added throughout the book --Beginning in Chapter 3, each chapter presents a new sequence of video tutorials that promote an accelerated learning experience. Each set of tutorials use topics from the current and previous chapters to build an application that integrates visual design and interaction principles.

Students who wish to accelerate their learning may use these videos to summarize and apply essential topics in these chapters. A New Tutorial for Creating a Database --A new tutorial has been added to Chapter 10 showing the student how to create a database within Visual Studio, and add data to the database. Bundled with Microsoft''s Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop --The book is bundled with Microsoft''s Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop--a streamlined product that captures the best elements of Visual Studio in an ideal format for learning programming. The Express edition offers an impressive set of tools for developing and debugging Visual Basic Windows Forms applications and Web applications, applications, including those that work with databases and use SQL.