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Visual Basic [Progressor]

Overview

The aim of this course is to advance users past the early stages of program development introduced with our Visual BASIC Primer course. This course introduces data structures and the step-wise refinement approach to developing software solutions vital to progress to more advanced stages of program design.

Attendees will focus on problem solving to solve basic computingproblems as well as learning standard algorithms for sorting and searching data. The course requires one group project and one individual project to be completed by the end of the course and presented to the class. View the certification path

Learn To

Develop and create user defined types
How to sort and search data and text files
Understand scope rules and VB project organisation
Work with multi-dimensional arrays
Work with recursive functions

… and much more

Course Content

Review Objects, events, properties and methods
Variables and types
Variable declarations
Variable scope and lifetime
Embedded loops
Loop exiting techniques
User-defined types
Enumerated types
Functions and parameter passing mechanisms
Function scope
Global variables
Recursive functions
Sorting techniques
Sorting arrays of numbers and strings
Bubble sort, Insertion sort, QuickSort
Searching algorithms
Binary search
Text files
Modes of operation
Reading and writing records
Searching and processing text files
Text files and listboxes
Working with fixed format text files
Multi-dimensional arrays
Analysing Requirements
Working with menus
Pop-up menus and drop down menus
Individual Project & Group project

Objectives

To be able to sort and search arrays and text files. To be able to create functions and procedures and understand the scope and parameter passing mechanisms used in VB and other programming languages. To be able to create user defined types and create fixed format text files. To understand the concept of a recursive function and be able to work with multi-dimensional arrays.

Audience

This course is aimed at new programmers having completed and passed the exam for the Visual BASIC Primer course (or equivalent).

Duration

3 Days / 8 Evenings