Advanced Visual Basic - CIS67

Weekly Schedule

Week Information
Assignments due in one week and programs in two weeks unless otherwise stated
Week #1 Assignments
Week ending January 25th
Read chapter #1 and #2 in the text.
If you choose to use another book, the topics to read about are Installing and Configuring Visual Basic, Interfacing with the user including MDI and SDI, Windows Common Controls (which we might get to next week or it might be another week). Review the programs done in class: PRMDIBasics.VBP, PRMDIBasicsA.vbp, PRMDICustomer.vbp.
Also look at the presentations on these topics: MDImenucontrol and MDIwinmenu.
Send me an a summary of your experience with Visual Basic.
You must have access to the Professional version of VB which would include help to take this course! Some of the topics require full versions instead of student versions. Read the first chapter in the text for additional information.
Make all work portable so that I can run it off any drive. I do not want to deal with hardcoded paths. However if a problem develops send me all things ready to run on the root of the A drive. That means after all is working, save to the A drive and test there. Send me that working model and I too will test off the A drive! Let me know if you have done this.
Week #2 Assignments
Week ending February 1st
Continue reading chapters #1 and #2 and checking the presentations and programs about SDI and the muffins series.
Start reading chapter #3.
First assignment
Week #3 Assignments
Week ending February 8th
Please look at the last program about Popup menus at the bottom of Combined SDI/MDI.
Also you need to look at the programs under controls and dynamic and the accompany slide presentations under controls.
Please read chapter #3 and make sure you are comfortable with the concepts of designing a relational database and third normal form.
Start reading chapter #4.
Some information on relational databases and third normal form is at my Oracle site:
Handout on definitions: Normalization definitions
Also view the slide presentation on normalization:
Normalization - information on third normal form
      Separate speaker notes for normalization presentation
Second assignment
Week #4 Assignments
Week ending February 15th
Please review ADO by looking at the text book, programs, notes and the PowerPoint presentations.
I would also like you to experiment with the Data Environment and Data Report Designer - do something simple that is not to be passed in.
Read chapter #4 and start reading chapter #5 in the text.
Be sure you are comfortable with the concepts of SQL - basic information is available at this site but you might also look for a web source as a supplement.
Experiment with using SQL in ADO.
Please look at the additional ADO examples and the PowerPoint presentation!
First ADO assignment
Week #5 Assignments
Week ending February 22nd
Please look at the examples on Data Environment and the Power Point presentations. Also start looking at the update examples!
First Data Environment assignment
Week #6 Assignments
Week ending March 1st
Please look at the rest of the projects added under Data Environment and the projects under Coded Connections.
Continue looking at the update examples under Data Environment this week.
Please look at the PowerPoint presentations on these topics!
Please start reading chapter #6.
Assignment: Take one of the programs that you have done using the ADO Data control or the Data Environment and modify it so that all of the code is in the program and you do not need the either the ADO Data Control or the Data Environment.
Week #7 Assignments
Week ending March 8th
Look at the programs under shape language. Also look at the update program. Your assignment is to analyze the update program and do the related assignment.
Note, if you download the update, be sure to download the .frx as well - there is a connection in it to the combo box, so... Assignment using Update Program
Week #8 Assignments
Week ending March 15th
Look at the editing changes in the update program - new version
Go over chapter #6 very well!
Look at the Class Item series of programs and the SavAcctCls series of programs.
Your assignment involves SavAcctCls02 or SavAcctCls03. On to the assignment: There is a button on the form called Apply Interest that does nothing. I want this button to update the balance by including the interest. I would do this using simple interest, when the button is clicked the current balance should be increased by balance times interest rate. This should be done as a class method. In addition to interest rate, you should add a button that can be clicked to subtract a bank fee from the balance. This should be handled as a method.
Just a suggestion, but I would consider going through the entire step by step process that the book sets up for chapter #6. I found it a good way to make sure I did not skip anything being covered in the chapter.
Look at the presentations that accompany class item and savings accounts.
Vacation next week - time to get caught up!
Week #9 Assignments
Week ending March 29th
We will focus on the class concept this week!
Start reading chapter #7 for next week.
Class assignment
Week #10 Assignments
Week ending April 5th
We will cover using classes and Access databases. Please look at the program under SavAcct07 which deals with class and database and check out the PowerPoint presentation as well!
Your assignment is to modify the class program that you were assigned last week so it uses a database. It must be able to add records to the database, retrieve records from the database, change records on the database and delete records from the database.
For next week please read chapter #8 and we will deal with ActiveX.
Week #11 Assignments
Week ending April 12th
Please look at examples and presentations on DLL, EXE, Word and Excel.
Assignment:Use SavAcct07 and set up the DLL (In-Process) for the class modules. You need to duplicate what I did in the PowerPoint presentation on DLL.
Please read chapter #9.
Week #12 Assignments
Week ending April 19th
Chapter #9 is the topic this week. We cover ActiveX Controls. Please see the sample notes and the PowerPoint presentation.
Assignment: Modify the key pad ActiveX Control so that it acts like a calculator and does addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Week #13 Assignments
Week ending April 26th
Please read chapter #10 and look at the Internet programs and Internet presentation I have put out on the Web. If you do not know HTML, it would be good to look over the basics. You can either find an HTML tutorial or you can look at the Notes I have under CIS44 - first week or so is enough!
Please note that I had a very serious problems with my email today (4/24). I think I finally got everything, but if you sent me something today and I do not get it back to you sometime next week, please send me an email asking if I got it.
Assignment Part 1:Set up Internet controls to browse the web.
Assignment Part 2:Create two linking DHTML pages that take in information and do calculations based on that information. The amount of work that you do will influence the grade!
Week #14
Week ending May 3rd
Catch up week! The final and status sheet are ready - let me know when to send them to you.
Week #15
Week ending May 10th
Another catch up week! You should also be taking the final! The final must be emailed to my usual address and to pgrocer@bristol.mass.edu. The final is due on May 14th at 4:00.
Contact me about the final - I will email it to you!

Send e-mail to Mrs. Grocer:
pgrocer@bristol.mass.edu

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