David I. Schneider, University of Maryland

Published August, 1998 by Prentice Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics

Copyright 1999, 320 pp.
Paper
ISBN 0-13-010043-9
$46.00

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"The writing style is great. Information is presented clearly with lots of examples to reinforce the material presented."—Dr. William Barnett, Northwestern State University. Powerful and easy to use, Visual Basic® has become the tool of choice for developing user-friendly applications in today's business world. Visual Basic® is the state of the art language for writing Windows applications and the language that allows you to take control of Microsoft Office. Written by best-selling author David I. Schneider, Essentials of Visual Basic ® 5.0 Programming assumes no prior programming experience and includes these important pedagogical features.

• Carefully teaches the fundamentals of programming and good programming practices that are in step with modern programming methodology.
• Numerous well-chosen examples are supplied as each concept is presented.
• Includes carefully designed exercise sets that students can appreciate.
• Includes programming projects throughout the text. The projects reflect the variety of ways that Visual Basic® can be utilized.

The text features a wealth of learning aids, including exercises, practice problems, programming projects, comments, case studies, summaries, and detailed appendices. In addition, the accompanying CD contains all the examples and case studies from the book as well as copy of the Microsoft® Visual Basic® 5.0 Control Creation Edition.

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. An Introduction to Computers and Visual Basic.
2. Fundamentals of Programming in Visual Basic.
3. Controlling Program Flow.
4. Arrays.
5. Miscellaneous Features of Visual Basic.
Appendix A. ANSI Values.
Appendix B. How To.
Appendix C. Visual Basic Debugging Tools.
Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Problems.
Index.