CPSC05 - Intro to Programming with Visual Basic

Course Description:  

This course is an introduction to event-driven programming using Visual Basic for the Windows environment.  The course will cover the standard Windows interface, the graphical Visual Basic development environment, design of the graphical user interface as well as concepts of programming, problem sovling, and programming logic.  Stand alone applications will be created for various studies.

Expected Student Outcomes or Objectives: 

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to demonstrate the following skills and abilities:

  1. Review relationships between hardware, software, data, information, and knowledge.
  2. Construct custom programs; provide information based on knowledge of requirements.
  3. Design custom programs using the concepts: prompts, variables, operations, selection, structure, loops, and sub routines.
  4. Analyze the needs of the user and design a program to satisfy those needs (information and knowledge distinction).
  5. Demonstrate use of texts, manuals, help files and tutorials to trouble shoot programs.