Introduction to Programming and Visual Basic Creating Applications with Visual Basic Variables and Calculations Making Decisions Lists and Loops Procedures and Functions Multiple Forms, Modules, and Menus Arrays and More Files, Printing, and Structure Working with Databases Developing Web Applications Classes, Collections, and Inheritance Appendix A Advanced User Interface Controls and Techniques Appendix B Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Appendix C Converting Mathematical Expressions to Programming Statements Appendix D Answers to Checkpoint Appendix E Glossary

  About the Book UPDATED! Completely updated for Visual Basic 2015, the book was revised and tested using Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition. REVISED! Chapter 2 has been completely rewritten and coversthe same topics, but features fresh new tutorials and a more streamlined organization. REVISED! Chapter 3 has been reorganized so the material on variables, data types, and calculations appears first, followed by the material on GUI creation. As a result, there is a stronger emphasis on coding fundamentals. Several new tutorials have also been added to the chapter. NEW! A section on the PrintDialog Control appears inChapter 9 on the PrintDialog control, which allows the user to select a printer, or a PDF driver, if one is installed on the system. NEW!  A new section covers the CType Method inChapter 12 and provides convenient type conversion for objects. NEW! Programming problems have been added throughout the book. Code improvements have been made to the code examples throughout the book. Concept Statements begin each major section of the text and concisely summarize the meaning of the section. Stepped-out, practical tutorials place programming concepts into a real-world context, making them more tangible for students. Each chapter has several hands-on tutorials that reinforce the chapter’s topics. Many of these tutorials involve the student in writing applications that can be applied to real-world problems. VideoNotes are a series of online videos, developed specifically for this book, are available for viewing at http://www.pearsonhighered.com/gaddisvb/. Icons appear throughout the text alerting the student to videos about specific topics. Checkpoints are questions placed at intervals throughout each chapter and are designed to query the student’s knowledge immediately after learning a new topic. Answers to all the Checkpoints are provided in Appendix D. Notes are short explanations of interesting or often misunderstood points relevant to the topic being discussed. Tips. Tips advise the student on the best techniques for approaching different programming problems and appear regularly throughout the text. Warnings caution the student about certain Visual Basic features, programming techniques, or practices that can lead to malfunctioning programs or lost data. Review Questions and Exercises provide thorough and diverse sets of review questions and exercises, in the tradition of all Gaddis texts offer students the chance to put the concepts they are learning to work.. These include traditional fill-in-the-blank, true or false, multiple choice, and short answer questions. There are also unique tools for assessing a student’s knowledge. For example, Find the Error questions ask the student to identify syntax or logic errors in brief code segments. Algorithm Workbench questions ask the student to design code segments to satisfy a given problem. There are also What Do You Think? questions that require the student to think critically and contemplate the topics presented in the chapter. Programming Challenges offer a pool of programming exercises designed to solidify the student’s knowledge of the topics at hand and appear in each chapter. In most cases, the assignments present real-world problems to be solved. When applicable, these exercises also include input validation rules. Clear code listings are easy for students to read and understand.     Also Available with MyProgrammingLab™. MyProgrammingLab is an online learning system designed to engage students and improve results. MyProgrammingLab consists of a set of programming exercises correlated to the programming concepts in this book.  Through practice exercises and immediate, personalized feedback, MyProgrammingLab improves the programming competence of beginning students who often struggle with the basic concepts of programming languages.   Interactive Practice provides first-hand programming experience in an interactive online environment. Approximately two-hundred small practice exercises cover topics such as variables, calculations, decision statements, loops, procedures, arrays, and more. Error Messages for Incorrect Answers give studentsimmediate personalized feedback. The error messages include both the feedback from the compiler and plain English interpretations of likely causes for the incorrect answer. Step-by-step VideoNote Tutorials enhance the programming concepts presented in your Pearson textbook by allowing students to view the entire problem-solving process outside of the classroom—when they need help the most. Pearson eText gives students access to their textbook anytime, anywhere. In addition to note taking, highlighting, and bookmarking, the eText offers interactive and sharing features. Rich media options let students watch lecture and example videos as they read or do their homework. Instructors can share their comments or highlights, and students can add their own, creating a tight community of learners in your class. The Pearson eText companion app allows existing subscribers to access their titles on an iPad or Android tablet for either online or offline viewing. Dynamic grading and assessment provide auto-grading of student assignments, saving you time and offering students immediate learning opportunities: A dynamic roster tracks their performance and maintains a record of submissions.  The color-coded gradebook gives you a quick glance of your classes' progress. Easily drill down to receive information on a single student's performance or a specific problem. Gradebook results can be exported to Excel to use with your LMS.  

About the Book UPDATED! Completely updated for Visual Basic 2015, the book was revised and tested using Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition. REVISED! Chapter 2 has been completely rewritten and coversthe same topics, but features fresh new tutorials and a more streamlined organization. REVISED! Chapter 3 has been reorganized so the material on variables, data types, and calculations appears first, followed by the material on GUI creation. As a result, there is a stronger emphasis on coding fundamentals. Several new tutorials have also been added to the chapter. NEW! A section on the PrintDialog Control appears inChapter 9 on the PrintDialog control, which allows the user to select a printer, or a PDF driver, if one is installed on the system. NEW!  A new section covers the CType Method inChapter 12 and provides convenient type conversion for objects. NEW! Programming problems have been added throughout the book. Code improvements have been made to the code examples throughout the book.   Also Available with MyProgrammingLab™. MyProgrammingLab is an online learning system designed to engage students and improve results. MyProgrammingLab consists of a set of programming exercises correlated to the programming concepts in this book.  Through practice exercises and immediate, personalized feedback, MyProgrammingLab improves the programming competence of beginning students who often struggle with the basic concepts of programming languages. Expanded! Approximately two-hundred small practice exercises cover topics such as variables, calculations, decision statements, loops, procedures, arrays, and more.