Thursday, November 18, 2010

Welcome to the CISP 241 Course Weblog

Welcome to the CISP 241: Visual Basic Programming I Course Weblog! This site will serve as a repository for course information, including course slides, assignments and resources.

Please send me an email (nicole.ryan@davenport.edu) if you have any suggestions regarding the weblog.

Adding Menus, SubMenus and Control Toolboxes to your forms

This week we will continue on with Chapter 7 and add on to our projects from last week. Specifically we will add Menus and Sub Menus, and Control Toolboxes to our forms.

This assignment will be due after we return from Thanksgiving Break, Thursday, December 2, 2010.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Chapter 7: Working with Multiple Forms

This week we will take a look at forms in Chapter 7. Next week we will look at modules and menus.

Here's your chance to get creative. I would like you to look through the material related to forms in this chapter, review your notes, and design your own program with at least two forms.

Draw out your program interface and the functions or methods that will be required to carry out your desired functionality. You have creative liberty regarding what your form does and how it looks.

Customize your forms to your liking and submit your project via Blackboard by Thursday, November 18, 2010.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Beef up our Blog! (BUOB)

Today we will discuss the revamp of our course syllabus, and we will take a day off from the usual seriousness of Visual Basic.

Today we will dedicate our efforts to finding useful VB resources and games to add to our blog.

Also on the agenda tonight is to get out early and generally enjoy life.

-Nicole

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Chapter 6: Functions, Oh My!

Tonight we will discuss functions in Visual Basic as they are outlined in Chapter 6 of our text. 

The assignment in conjunction with this chapter is to complete programming exercise 4, outlined as Joe's Automotive, in Chapter 6 of our text.

Pay particular attention to the functions that are required and the note regarding apostrophe's in the name of the form.

Joe's Automotive form (Exercise #4, Chapter 6) is due in class next Thursday, November 4, 2010.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Chapter 5: Lists and Loops && The Midterm Exam

This week we will discuss lists and loops in Visual Basic as they are outlined in Chapter 5 of our text.

...And we will look at the tutorials together as requested last week in class. There will be no assignment to hand in for this chapter due to the Midterm Exam.


Part One of our Midterm Exam will take place in class next week, Thursday, October 14th. This portion of the exam will be "hands on" and require you to complete Programming Challenge 1 from Chapter 5, labeled "Sum of Numbers".

Part 2 of our Midterm Exam will take place in two weeks on Thursday, October 21st. A study guide will be given out in class next week. This portion of the exam will consist of approximately 20 questions drawn from concepts covered in chapters 1 - 5.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

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