Introduce students to the basics of Visual Basic programming Written in clear, friendly, easy-to-understand language. The material is written specifically for beginner students, and thoroughly explains important concepts. Teaches Visual Basic in a step-by-step fashion. Each chapter covers a major set of topics and builds knowledge as the student progresses through the book. Updated to Visual Basic 2017 - The entire text has been updated and tested using Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition. Features for student success Hundreds of Example Programs are used, each designed to highlight specific programming topics. In most cases, these are practical, real-world examples. Source code for these programs is provided so that students can run the programs themselves.

Concept Statements, Checkpoints, Notes, Tips and Warnings all call out important pieces of information for the student. New - Programming problems have been added throughout the text to test students'' knowledge. Case studies appear in many chapters. Additional case studies are provided on the book''s companion site (www.pearson.com/gaddis). A thorough and diverse set of Review Questions, such as fill-in-the-blank and short answer, check students'' mastery of the basic material presented in each chapter. These are followed by exercises requiring problem solving and analysis, such as the Algorithm Workbench , Predict the Output , and Find the Errors sections.

Programming Challenges presented in each chapter are designed to solidify students'' knowledge of the topics, typically through real-world problems to be solved. Content updates keep the text current Updated - Chapter 2 has been completely rewritten -Chapter 2 still covers the same topics, but the chapter has been rewritten with fresh new tutorials and a more streamlined organization. Updated - Chapter 3 has been reorganized -We have reorganized Chapter 3 so the material on variables, data types, and calculations appears first, followed by the material on GUI creation. As a result, there is a stronger emphasis on coding fundamentals. Several new tutorials have also been added to the chapter. New - Section on the PrintDialog Control -Chapter 9 has a new section on the PrintDialog control, which allows the user to select a printer, or a PDF driver, if one is installed on the system. New - Coverage of the CType Method-Chapter 12 now has a section on the CType method, which provides convenient type conversion for objects. Revised - Code improvements -Throughout the book, many of the code examples have been improved.

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