Programming
Lecture 1:
Based on Chapter 1 of Textbook
The Visual Basic Envir onm ent
Lecture Overview
✓ What is Programming
✓ Examples of Programming 2
Languages
✓ Introduction to Visual Basic
✓ Visual Basic Integrated
Development Environment (IDE)
Computer Programming
▹ In Previous Topic
▹ Learnt about the phases of Program
Development (about six phases)
▹ Design Phase 2
▹ One of those phases
▹ Write the algorithm: Flowchart, Pseudocode
▹ Implementation Phase
▹ Using your algorithm to write a program
or code
Computer Programming
▹ What is Programming
▹ Process of designing & writing
computer programs (instructions)
▹ Though Coding & Programming may
be used Interchangeable, they have 2
some differences
▹ Coding
▹ Coding is process of writing program
code – is a specific task in programming
▹ Programming
▹ Programming is process of creating
functional Software or Computer
program.
Programming Languages
▹ Programming Language
▹ Language for instruction into Computer
▹ E.g. C++. BASIC, COBOL, Pascal,
Java, C#, Visual Basic
▹ Description of Some Langiages:
2
Programming Languages Continued
▹ Programming Language for ISTN103
▹ Visual Basic (VB)
▹ Introduction to VB
▹ Visual Basic (VB)Good Programming
Language User Friendly for Beginners
as: 2
▹ Easy to Lear
▹ Allows for Development of GUI windows
Applications
▹ Derived from the word Basic and hence
purposed for beginners
▹ Is event Driven
▹ Allows for event driven activities such as:
▹ Mouse Click
▹ Drag and Drop
Programming Languages Continued
▹ Categories /Kind / Type of
Application that can be created
using VB
▹Windows / Desktop based Applications
▹ Web Apps
▹ Console Applications 2
▹ Mobile Apps
▹ Limitation:
▹Not idea for developing embedded Systems
▹ Examples of Applications that VB can
be used to Create:
▹Mathematical App, Science App, Business
App, Game, Multimedia, Text Editor, etc.
Objects Oriented Programming
▹ VB supports Object Oriented Programming
▹ Concept of Objected Oriented Programming
▹ Object, Properties and Methods
OBJECTS
Properties / Methods /
Characteristics Behaviors
CLASS
▹Blueprint used to create object
▹Object becomes a class and class
contains/encapsulates attributes
and behaviors & allow inheritance
▹ Instance of a class–create an 4
object from a class
▪ Ferrari Enzo, Ferrari F40 are
instances (examples) of the
Ferrari class
▪ Casio Telememo 30, Seiko
Kinetic, FitBit Watch are
instances of a watch class
▹ Application: program User interface: what the
or suite of programs user sees and interacts
with when using an
▹ Windows-based
application
application: Web-based application:
▪ Has a Windows user Has a Web user interface 5
interface Runs on a server
▪ Runs on a personal Accessed with a
computer computer browser
▹ Console, DOS-based
application:
▪ DOS / Console Based
MS Visual Studio
▹IDE– Integrated Development
environment
▹ Contains all tools needed to easily
create applications
▹You create the user interface
▪ How the user sees the
system 6
▪ How the user uses the
system
▹VB Has various versions
▪ V. 2022 available
▹For this course and this year, we
will use V. 2019
Remember as developers you are
creating applications that other
people will use
END OF LECTURE
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