An Introduction
to Visual Basic 6
Series: Visual Basic 6
Weeks: 8
Cost: $200
CEU Credits: 3.0
Overview:
Visual Baisc 6 was formerly an industry tool of choice
for software development in today's corporate environment. Although
Microsoft has dropped support of Visual Basic 6 in favor of VB.Net,
the effort has proved daunting, and the language is still widely
used worldwide. So much so that, by popular demand, I'm now offering
the course again.
This 8
week course is for aspiring programmers who have had no
previous exposure to programming, and would like to be able to write
their own Visual Basic 6 programs. Experienced programmers are welcome also!
Objectives:
- To examine Microsoft Windows
behavior
- To become comfortable with the
Visual Basic 6 IDE
- To learn what a Visual Basic
property is
- To learn some of the major
properties of a Visual Basic Form
- To learn what a Visual Basic
method is
- To learn what a Visual Basic event
is
- To learn the major controls
contained in the Visual Basic 6 toolbox
- To learn 'where' program code in a
Visual Basic program is written
- To learn the importance of Data in
a computer programmer
- To learn what a variable and a
constant is
- To learn the Visual Basic 6 Data types
- To learn what operations can be
performed on Visual Basic 6 data
- To learn what a Visual Basic 6 Selection
structure is
- To learn the Visual Basic 6 If statement
- To learn the Visual Basic 6 Case Statement
- To learn what a loop is and why
it's important in your program
- To learn what a For...Next Loop is
used for
- To learn about the family of
Do...Loops
- To learn what String Manipulation
means and what it can be used for
- To learn basic File Manipulation
Operations in Visual Basic 6
- To learn how to create a menu in Visual Basic 6
- To learn how to create an Array in
Visual Basic 6
- To learn the difference between a
one-dimensional and a multi-dimensional array
- To learn how to enable Error
Handling in a Visual Basic 6 program
- To learn how to read from, and
write to, the Windows Registry
Prerequisites:
Requirements:
TEXTBOOKS:
SOFTWARE:
Table of Contents
| Week 1: |
Getting Started, What is a
Computer Program, Getting Comfortable with Visual Basic |
- Programming the Easy Way
- The Systems Development
Life Cycle (SDLC)
- What is a Computer?
- What makes a computer
program run.
- An In-depth Look at
Windows
- The Visual Basic
Environment
- The Visual Basic IDE
- The Visual Basic Toolbox
|
| Week 2: |
Programming is Easy, Building
the User Interface |
- Less is Best
- Visual Basic Properties,
Methods, and Events
- Visual Basic Controls
|
| Week 3: |
A First Look At Coding |
- The old days...
- Event Driving Programming
- Writing Code
- Program Comments
- A Visual Basic Code
Overview
- The Visual Basic Debugger
|
| Week 4: |
Data, Selection Structures |
- Computer Data
- Variables and Constants
- Variable Declaration
- Operations on Data
- Selection Structures
- The If...Then Statement
- The Case Statement
|
| Week 5: |
Loops |
- What's a Loop
- For...Next Loops
- Do...Loops
|
| Week 6: |
String Manipulation, File
Operations |
- What is a String?
- String Concatenation
- Breaking Strings Apart
- Disk File Operations
- Writing Data to a Disk
File
- Reading Data from a Disk
File
|
| Week 7: |
Finishing the User Interface,
Arrays |
- Drop-Down Menus
- The MsgBox Function
- What's an Array
- Declaring and Initializing
an Array
- Static and Dynamic Arrays
- Adding Data to an Array
- Single and
Multidimensional Arrays
|
| Week 8: |
Error Handling, Customizing
Your Program |
- Common Beginner Errors
- Runtime Errors/Logic
Errors
- Visual Basic 6
Error Handling
- Writing to the Windows
Registry
- Reading from the Windows
Registry
- Creating Custom Sub
Procedures
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