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Telephone – 2595 8168
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Richard C.Y. Pang
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Computer & Information
Management
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Room 436
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Consultation Hours
Wed 11am - 5pm
Thu 2pm - 4pm
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Objectives
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Aim
To provide the students with the knowledge of a general-purpose
& easy-to-learn programming language
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Understand the basics of program creation & development using a high-level programming language
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Learn basic syntaxes & techniques in programming.
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Learn program design techniques using flowcharts & diagrams
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Lectures
Cover the theory of the course.
Visual Basic .NET will be used for explanations.
Laboratories
To put the theory into practice using Visual Basic .NET for
Windows XP
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Module Value : 3.0
Duration : 15 weeks
Coursework (50%)
Quizzes
Individual piece
Continuous Assessment
Class-Contact : Lecture 15 hours
Lab 30 hours
Examination (50%)
One examination
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Visual Basic .NET Introductory Concepts and Techniques
Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman, Jeffrey J.
Quasney
Thomson Course Technology
ISBN 0-7895-6547-1
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Any book on Visual Basic .NET
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Programming Concepts
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A computer program is an example of computer software that instructs computer to carry out actions.
Program ~ software /software application
 e.g. computer game, Word, Excel,
Internet Explorer, Easy CD Creator
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Compile
(Translate)
Interrelated abstract algorithms
Machine
Language
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Me
Shirley
Delivery
Man
Florist in my town
Florist in
Shirley’s town
To solve problems in an efficient and accurate way
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Back in the early 1970’s, Bill and Paul were friends at
Lakeside School in Seattle. They enjoyed working with computers and wrote many games they could play. The games were written in BASIC (Beginner’s All-Purpose
Symbolic Instruction Code).
In college, they improved their computer skills and sold their version of the BASIC language to other people on a cassette tape. They started making money selling BASIC and established a company called Microsoft! Bill is Bill
Gates, a billionaire now running Microsoft.
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BASIC (1964)
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GW-BASIC, QuickBasic, QBasic (1985)
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Visual Basic 1.0 (1991) – for Windows
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Visual Basic 2.0 (1992)
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Visual Basic 3.0 (1993)
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Visual Basic 4.0 (1995)
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Visual Basic 5.0 (1997) - 32-bit Windows Program
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Visual Basic 6.0 (1998) - Windows & Web based P.
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Visual Basic .NET (2002)
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Visual Basic .NET 2003 (2003)
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VB.NET 2005 beta
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Windows based (Windows 2000,
Windows XP or Windows NT) applications
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Web based application is an application delivered to users from a web server over the World Wide Web.
-Through Web browser / thin client
-Popular update/maintain web applications without installing software on clients
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1. Language used to create windows and web application
2. Provide a Graphical User Interface or GUI (VS DOS)
3. A kind of 4GL (fourth-generation language) closer to human language.
4GL are designed to reduce programming effort, time to develop software and the cost of software development. E.g. VB, Oracle Reports, Oracle
SQL*Plus, SQL
First generation: machine language
Class
Third generation: high-level programming languages, such as C, C++, and Java. Objects
Fifth generation: languages used for artificial intelligence and neural networks.
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Main Window Title Bar Main
Menu
Toolbars
IDE – Integrated Development Environment of Visual Basic .NET
Design Window Start Page 15

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What is program?
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How computer program can be compiled?
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What is the benefit in writing computer program?
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Why web based application becomes more popular?
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