Bergen Community College

Division of Business, Math & Social Science

Information Technology

Spring 2006

Course Outline

Instructor:	Professor Anita Verno
Faculty Web-Site:	www.bergen.edu/faculty/averno
Course Web Site:	http://dl.bergen.edu/webct/public/home.pl
E-mail:	averno@bergen.edu
Telephone with Voice Mail:	201-447-7909
Office:	S-330
Office Hours:	TBA

Course Title:

INF-145 Introduction to Visual Basic for Business

Course Syllabus at http://www.bergen.edu/departments/business/inf/syllabi

Textbooks and Supplies:

· Jeff Salvage, The Visual Basic.net Coach, Addison Wesley, 2003, ISBN:  0-321-11350-0.  (Text comes bundled with Visual Basic.net Academic Edition).

· 100MB zip disks for submitting assignments

· Removable storage for work in Lab – choose one of the following:
Flash USB Storage (recommended)
100MB or 250MB zip disks
CD-RW

Additional Class Information:

INF-145 – Calendar

Session	Reading* (Read PRIOR to attending class)	Language Specifics*	Lab Work* (Practice/Projects are done after attending class)
1 _________	Chap 1:  Introduction to Computing Chap 2:  Your First Visual Basic.net Applications	VB.net IDE, Picture Box, Text Box, Label, Button, BackColor, ForeColor, Tab Index, Comments Option Strict	Practice Lab 1: Orientation to Visual Basic Page 53 #15, 18
2 _________	Chap 3:  Performing Operations and Storing the Results	Variables and data types, constants, arithmetic operations, conversion functions, ToString method, scope, MsgBox, VB.net Debugger	Practice Lab 2: Page 91 #11, 12 Lab Project 1:  Page 91 #15 (submit by due date, before Session 3):
3 _________	Chap 4:  Decision Making	Relational and Boolean operators If Then, If Then Else, If Then ElseIf Else, Select Case	Practice Lab 3: Page 157 #13, 14, 15, 16 using If
4 _________	Chap 4:  Decision Making CONTINUED		Practice Lab 4: Page 157 #13, 14, 15, 16 using Select Case
5 _________	Exam 1 – chap 1-4		Lab Project 2:  TBA (submit by due date, before Session 7)
6 _________	Chap 5:  Subroutines and Functions	Built-In functions, User-written Sub procedures, User-written Functions, pass by value. pass by reference	Practice Lab 5: Page 200 #11,13,17
7 _________	Chap 6:  Objects and Classes	OOP Concepts, terminology, Built-in Objects, user-written Classes, Radio Button, Combo Box, List Box	Lab Project 3:  TBA (submit by due date, before Session 9)
8 _________	Chap 6:  Objects and Classes CONTINUED
9 _________	Exam 2 – chap 1-6		Lab Project 4:  TBA (submit by due date, before Session 11)
10 _________	Chap 7:  Repetition	For next, do while loop, do until loop, do loop while, do loop until, Counters, accumulators, flags, MS Flex Grid	Practice Lab 6: Page 310-211 #15, 16, 19
11 _________	Chap 8:  Arrays, Collections, and Structures	1-D and 2-D arrays, dynamic memory, collections, arrays of controls, structures	Practice Lab 7: Page 345 #7,8
12 _________	Chap 8:  Arrays, Collections, and Structures CONTINUED Chap 9:  Files	File Input and File Output with sequential files. Common Dialog Box	Final Project: (submit by due date, before Session 14; portions may be due earlier)
13 _________	Project		Final Project
14 _________	Project Presentations		Project Presentations
15 _________	Exam 3 – chap 1 - 9

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