Course description
In Introduction to Visual Basic for Engineers, you'll learn ...
- Three of the steps to creating a Visual Basic project, solution or application
- How to use some of the Visual Basic controls in a project
- That controls or objects have events, properties and methods
- How to set properties of controls
Overview
Credit: 3 PDH
Length: 31 pages
This course introduces the reader to Visual Basic Express Edition by Microsoft in an easy-to-understand fashion. While it is not intended to be a complete tutorial, the student will learn basics and become familiar with the code used to write many of today’s computer applications.
The course covers program development and mentions some of the tools used by programmers. Some Visual Basic controls are covered including the events, properties and methods of those controls. Additionally covered are some Visual Basic event procedures and, of special concern to engineers, numbers, arithmetic operators, variables and numeric expressions along with the built-in math functions and derived functions are highlighted as well.
Finally, there is information on inputs and outputs, loops (including For … Next loops) and formatting the output of a ListBox.
It is suggested that the student download the free version of Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition from the Microsoft website at: .
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Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 15 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
Training content
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Three of the steps to creating a Visual Basic project, solution or application
- How to use some of the Visual Basic controls in a project
- That controls or objects have events, properties and methods
- How to set properties of controls
- How to write code for event procedures in Visual Basic
- How to use numbers, variables, arithmetic operators and numeric expressions in Visual Basic
- How to use methods in Visual Basic
- How to handle input and output information in Visual Basic
- How to use math built-in functions in Visual Basic and derived functions
- How to use a For … Next loop to produce a table
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