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COURSE OUTLINE

Advance Programming1(Visual Basic)

I. Introductiona. Visual Basic 2010b. Visual Basic 2010 Integrated Development Environmentc. Setting the Environment Options

II. Variables and Data Types (Nacaytona)a. Comments and Whitespaceb. Variablesc. Data typesd. Constantse. Arraysf. Enumerations

III. Control Flow Statements(Noreen Tolibas)a. Decision Statementsb. Loop Statementsc. Procedure and Functionsd. Arguments

i. Passingii. Returning values

IV. Forms and Windows Controls( )a. Loading and Showing Formsb. Designing Menusc. TextBox, CheckedListBox, and ComboBox Contorlsd. ScrollBar and TrackBar Controlse. Common Dialog Controlsf. RichTextBox Contolg. TreeView and ListView Controlsh. Other Controls

V. Custom Classes and Objects (Niego)a. Classes and Objectsb. Operator Overloading

VI. Applied Object-Oriented Programming ()a. Inheritanceb. Extension Methodsc. Polymorphism

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VII. Working with the .NET Framework()a. The .NET Frameworkb. Using Snippetsc. Using the My Componentd. The IO Namespacee. Drawing and Paintingf. The Image Classg. Printingh. Handing Strings and Charactersi. Handling Dates and Time

VIII. Storing Data in Collections ()a. Advanced Array Topicsb. Collection

i. Dictionary Collectionii. HashTable Collection

iii. SortedList Collectioniv. Other Collectionv. IEnumerator and IComparer Interfaces

IX. Data-Driven Applications()a. ADO.NETb. Basic Data-Access Classesc. Storing Data in DataSetsd. Data Binding

X. Deploying the Application ()a. Creating a Visual Studio 2010 Setup Application

LEARNING ACTIVITIESo Lecture and Discussion

o Reporting

o Laboratory Exercises

COURSE REQUIRMENTSo Active Class Participation

o Attendance

o Written and Oral Reports

o Quizzes

o Laboratory Exercises

o Major Examinations

REFERENCEo Mastering Visual Basic 2010 by Evangelos Petroutsos