Visual Basic - CIS56

Professor: Priscilla Grocer

Office: K-112

Course Description (from catalog):

This course will cover object oriented Visual Basic. The student is taught to analyze a programming problem, design a logical solution, and write and execute the program using Visual Basic. The course will emphasize the strengths of Visual basic and its wide variety of uses as well as covering a wide range of programming applications.

Course Objectives:

The primary objective of this course is to teach the student to program in Visual Basic. At the completion of this course, the following objectives should have been accomplished:

• the student should understand the concepts of object oriented programming as implemented in Visual Basic
• the student should understand how to design, write, run and debug a Visual Basic program
• the student should have experience with Visual Basic as a macro language

Texts:

Visual Basic 6.0
David I. Schneider
Prentice Hall

Material to be Covered:

1. Introduction to Visual Basic and problem solving
2. Fundamentals of programming in Visual Basic
3. Procedures
4. Decisions
5. Repetition
6. Arrays
7. Sequential files
8. Random access files
9. Other elements of Visual Basic
10. Visual Basic as a macro language
11. Object orientation
12. Other topics as time permits

Requirements:

Requirements and Grading: The student will be expected to complete all assigned work. Homework assignments will be due in a week, programs will be due in two weeks. There will be approximately one assignment per week (occasionally two). Quizzes, when given, will count as a homework assignment. In addition there will be a final exam. Grading percents are:

• 80% Homework, programs and quizzes
• 10% Class participation, responsibility about work, keeping up to date, quality of work, adding extras that are above and beyond, showing initiative, figuring out problems etc.
• 10% Final

Evaluation:Assignments, programs and exams are graded using either number grades or letter grades based on the following (A=90-100, B=80-89, C=70-79, D=60-69, F=below 60). The student's grade for the course will use the same scale and will be based on the percentages explained in the grading section. Plus and minus grades will be given.

Attendance:The student is allowed to cut six one hour classes.

Methodology: The course is given using the lecture method and the student is encouraged to ask questions at any point during the lecture. In addition, students will be working independently on projects designed to give them additional computer skills and practical experience in analyzing and solving problems. When appropriate, class exercises and problem solving techniques are used.


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