Classroom Training
Visual Basic for Beginners
Available as classroom training course only
£695 + VAT for most venues (£795 + VAT for London)
2 days
This introductory course focuses on how to write programs in Visual Basic (called VB by its friends, and also VB.NET). Forget about the user interface (this two-day course does), but learn instead how to use conditions, loops, error-trapping and all of the other standard VB programming techniques.
We don't have any dates scheduled for this course, but we may well consider adding them - it's always worth asking.
Alternatively, you could enquire about running the course in your office or even (if available) as a tailored online course.
Course Contents
The contents of this course are as follows:
Basics of forms
- Creating basic forms
- Form events
Coding in VB.NET
- Writing routines
- Commenting and uncommenting
- Using code regions
Variables and constants
- Defining variables
- Scope of variables
- Constants
If time
Enumerations
- Creating enumerations
- Changing integer values
Testing conditions
- IF, ELSE and END IF
- Using SELECT CASE
Passing arguments
- Writing modular code
- ByRef and ByVal
- Creating functions
Using arrays
- Defining arrays
- Using arrays to split text
Loops
- Fixed number of iterations
- Looping UNTIL or WHILE
- Looping over collections
Working with files
- Streamreaders and streamwriters
- Defining scope with USING
- FileInfo / DirectoryInfo
Debugging
- Debugging applications
- Stepping through code
- Defining breakpoints
Error trapping
- TRY / CATCH
- The DEBUG.PRINT statement
Lists
- The wonderful VB list
- Adding and removing items
- Finding items
Creating properties
- Types of property
- Writing properties
Although it's not a pre-requisite, you'll find this course much easier if you've already done some programming in another language.
Why Choose Us?
- No more than 5 people per class
- Proper restaurant lunch included
- 536 references viewable online
- Free USB stick containing course files
- Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
- Unbelievably good courseware
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