INT-2030 Introduction to Visual Basic

Credits 4
Students program in Visual Basic to create business applications featuring a graphical interface. Such programs incorporate multiple simultaneous windows, graphical images, pull-down menus, dialog boxes, and similar objects, as well as event-driven modules and procedures. Emphasizes structured, object-oriented programming. Focuses on advanced graphical controls (built-ins, third party, and user-designed), data access using the ADO.NET technology, Web-based applications, error trapping and handling.
Prerequisite(s): INT-1111.
3 class/3 lab hours.
(Not offered summer.)

Course Outcomes

Design and build complete applications using the Visual Basic.NET language.
Use Visual Studio.NET Integrated Development Environment (IDE) technology to create Web Applications.
Use Visual Basic.NET objects to include forms , controls, classes, properties, events, methods, functions, interfaces and procedures to accomplish programming tasks.
Identify and correct syntax and logic errors in a program.
Explain the nature of object-oriented programming, software reuse, information hiding, and the incorporation of database tables into VB projects.
Build class library projects, and call class library projects from another project.
Build applications with ADO .NET technology to access a database..
Write traditional sequential files, direct or random access files, and pseudo-ISAM files.
Incorporate advanced array-handling techniques into a Visual Basic .NET application, including multi-dimensional arrays, sorting an array, searching an array with sequential and binary search techniques, and creating and traversing a linked list.
Implement error trapping and handling into Visual Basic .NET applications.