Learning to Program in VB Crash Course Coding for Visual Basic Visual Studio .NET Beginners Guide in Programming with Examples and Challenges GCSE and A Level Computer Science Course Textbook KS4 KS5 - Softcover

Sylvia Langfield

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910523186 ISBN 13: 9781910523186

Publisher: PG Online Limited, 2019

Synopsis

Full-colour coded examples to follow

Over 100 challenges, exercises and examples

FREE downloadable VB pack including 120 coded solutions and answers to each exercise

A clear, concise, step-by-step guide to learn programming in VB

This approachable and handy-sized book has become popular with students looking to learn VB. It is a slim and un-daunting guide (just 128 pages) that is frequently recommended by teachers and schools delivering the GCSE or A Level Computer Science specification as well as hobbyists and those in industry looking to get a quick head start in Visual Basic.

This popular book is a straightforward guide to the VB programming language and programming techniques. It covers all of the practical skills that may be required up to GCSE level and for those at AS Level with limited exposure to Visual Basic. Simple language has been used throughout. It is suitable for both experienced programmers, students or individuals with very little or no programming experience in other languages.

It teaches basic syntax and programming techniques, and introduces several useful features including:

• Developing graphical user interfaces (GUIs), with the visual designer in visual studio.
  
• SQLite, which enables the creation and processing of a database from within a Visual Basic .NET program.This provides an alternative to writing to a text file when data needs to be stored and retrieved.
  
• The Visual Studio debugger, which can be used to help find elusive logic errors.

Questions and exercises are included in every chapter. Answers to these, as well as over 120 VB programs for all the examples and exercises given in the book, are provided to all in a free downloadable pack from the PG Online website.

PG Online are multi-award-winning specialists in Computer Science with decades of teaching, examining and programming experience.

Features:

• FREE 120 Visual Basic programming solutions in a downloadable pack
• Perfect for beginners, students and professionals looking to pick up a popular language quickly
• Worked examples of problems and program solutions
• Clear layout with full-colour code examples and output screenshots
• Comprehensive index

About this title

About the Author

Sylvia has a first class degree in Computer Science from Sheffield University and a PGCE from Cambridge University. She worked as a programmer for 2 years before a 23-year career in teaching Computing A-Level at a sixth form college, the last 11 years as a head of department. She is a founder member of CAS and has written a number of A-Level Computing textbooks. Sylvia's examining experience stretches over 20 years and with a number of exam boards.

Edition details

• Publisher: PG Online Limited
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1910523186
• ISBN 13: 9781910523186
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 136
• Editor: PG Online