VB for Very Bright Kids

Writing programs is Fun! This e-book will have you coding your very own Visual Basic programs in no time! With fun cartoons and easy to follow code samples, you'll be creating your own inventions in no time! The book is divided into 5 Parts:

Part I – Getting Started

• Introduction
• Software You'll Need
• Formatting Standards Used in this Book
• What's Next?

Part II – Learning to Communicate

• A Shared View of The World: The Alien, the Elephant and the Coconut Tree
• Computers Are Just Like Aliens
• The Object-Oriented Approach Summarized
• Classes
• Objects
• Fields and Their Types
• Types
• How to Use Fields
• Methods
• More About Methods
• Parameters
• Methods that Send Values Back
• Public, Private and Protected Methods
• Constructor Methods
• Events
• The Button Click Event
• Mouse Events
• Name Spaces
• Inheritance

Part III – The Visual Basic Language

• Vocabulary
• Some General Grammar Rules
• Capital and Small Letters
• Statements
• Code Blocks - Grouping Statements Together
• Comments - Helping the Humans Out
• Indenting Your Code
• Variables
• Operators
• Converting Between Types
• Branching
• Looping
• The For Loop
• The While Loop
• Whole Program Structure
• Using Class Libraries

Part IV – Programming with the .NET Framework

• System.Console
• System.Windows.Forms
• System.Drawing
• System.Data
• System.Xml

Part V – Beyond This Book