Simply Visual Basic 2010: An App-Driven Approach, 4th Edition

For introductory courses in Visual Basic Programming, offered in departments of Information Technology, Computer Science or Business.

Merging the concept of a lab manual with that of a conventional textbook, the Deitels have crafted an innovative approach that enables students to learn programming while having a mentor-like book by their side. This best-seller blends the Deitel™ signature Live-Code™ Approach with their Application-Driven™ methodology.¿ Students learn programming and Visual Basic by working through a set of applications.¿ Each tutorial builds upon previously learned concepts while learning new ones. An abundance of self assessment exercises are available at the end of most chapters to reinforce key ideas.¿

This approach makes it possible to cover a wealth of programming constructs within the Visual Basic 2010 environment.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Test-Driving a Painter App: Introducing Computers, the Internet and Visual Basic
Chapter 2 Welcome App: Introducing the Visual Basic 2010 Express IDE
Chapter 3 Welcome App: Introduction to Visual App Development
Chapter 4 Designing the Inventory App: Introducing TextBoxes and Buttons
Chapter 5 Completing the Inventory App: Introducing Programming
Chapter 6 Enhancing the Inventory App: Introducing Variables, Memory Concepts and Arithmetic
Chapter 7 Wage Calculator App: Introducing Algorithms, Pseudocode and Program Control
Chapter 8 Dental Payment App: Introducing CheckBoxes and Message Dialogs
Chapter 9 Car Payment Calculator App: Introducing the Do While…Loop and Do Until…Loop Repetition Statements
Chapter 10 Class Average App: Introducing the Do…Loop While and Do…Loop Until Repetition Statements
Chapter 11 Interest Calculator App: Introducing the For…Next Repetition Statement and NumericUpDown Control
Chapter 12 Security Panel App: Introducing the Select Case Multiple-Selection Statement
Chapter 13 Enhancing the Wage Calculator App: Introducing Function Procedures and Sub Procedures
Chapter 14 Shipping Time App: Using Dates and Timers
Chapter 15 Fund Raiser App: Introducing Scope, Pass-by-Reference and Option Strict
Chapter 16 Craps Game App: Introducing Random-Number Generation and Enum
Chapter 17 Flag Quiz App: Introducing One-Dimensional Arrays and ComboBoxes
Chapter 18 Student Grades App: Introducing Two-Dimensional Arrays and RadioButtons
Chapter 19 Microwave Oven App: Building Your Own Classes and Objects
Chapter 20 Shipping Hub App: Introducing Generic Collections, LINQ, For Each…Next and Access Keys
Chapter 21 Typing App: Introducing Keyboard Events, Menus, Dialogs and the Dictionary Collection
Chapter 22 Screen Scraping App: Introducing String Processing
Chapter 23 Ticket Information App: Introducing Sequential-Access Files
Chapter 24 Enhanced Car Payment Calculator App: Introducing Exception Handling
Chapter 25 CheckWriter App: Introducing Graphics and Printing
Chapter 26 “Cat and Mouse” Painter App: Introducing Graphics with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Mouse Events
Chapter 27 Address Book App: Databases and LINQ
Chapter 28 Guestbook App: Web App Development with ASP.NET
Chapter 29 Books Database App: Web App Development with ASP.NET: A Deeper Look
Appendix A: Operator Precedence Chart
Appendix B: ASCII Character Set
Appendix C: GUI Design Guidelines
Appendix D: Keyword Chart
Appendix E: Primitive Data Types