Course BA 4318-0U1 Programming in Visual Basic

Instructor Abhijeet Ghoshal

Term Summer 2009
Meetings Monday and Wednesday 12:30 – 2:45 SOM 1.117

Professor’s Contact Information

Office Phone 972-883-4304
Office Location SOM 3.419
Email Address Use WebCT for all written communication regarding the course
Office Hours 11.00 AM to 12 Noon Monday and Wednesday

General Course Information

Pre-requisites, Co-
requisites, & other BA 3351, MATH1326 and MATH2333
restrictions
This introductory course teaches programming business applications.
Business applications such as a payroll program require customization for
a particular. Developing such an application involves deep understanding
of the problem, decomposition of the problem into sub- problems, the
design of visual objects on the screen, the selection of data structures and
algorithms. The objective of this course is to introduce how to solve
business problems by creating high quality computer applications.

This course uses Microsoft's Visual Basic (VB) .NET programming

Course Description language and Integrated Development Environment (IDE). VB.NET
provides tools to make it easier for programmers to create good graphical
user interfaces (GUIs), write scripts, and make modifications of scripts.
VB.NET programs are event-driven programs, which respond to user
actions such as the clicking of mouse. Developing VB.NET programs
involves analyzing the problems, designing GUI, selecting data structures
and algorithms, and implementing objects (buttons, text boxes, etc.) to
properly respond to user actions. VB.NET has emerged as an exceedingly
powerful development system from a very simple programming language

1. Students will be able to apply the Visual Studio IDE for developing
Windows Forms applications focusing on most commonly used controls.
2. Students will be able to develop computer programs using repetition
Learning Outcomes control structure, selection statements and arrays.
3. Students will be able to develop and apply user-defined classes.
4. Students will be able to develop simple programs using databases.

Required Texts & The text for the course is Simply Visual Basic .NET 2008 by Deitel &
Materials Deitel , Prentice Hall Publishers.
Lecture notes/slides will be posted on the course WebCT site.
Readings &
You will require Visual Studio 2008 environment for this class. Visual
Software
Basic 2008 Express Edition is available as a free download from the
Microsoft website.
Assignments & Academic Calendar
The following is a tentative schedule, which I will try to follow as closely as possible. Should any
changes become necessary, I will announce it in class as well as post it on WebCT. Please check
your mails for changes at least once a week.
Date Topic Readings
5/27/2009 Course Introduction Chapter 1&2
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition environment Chapter 3
Introduction to Visual Programming, Textboxes and Chapter 4
Buttons
6/1/2009 Introduction to Programming. Chapter 5
Introduction to variables, memory concepts and arithmetic. Chapter 6
6/3/2009 Algorithms and control structures Chapter 7
6/8/2009 Checkboxes, Message Dialogs and Logical Operators Chapter 8
Do While….. Loop and Do Until……Loop Chapter 9
6/10/2009 Do….Loop Until and Do….Loop While Chapter 10
6/15/2009 For….Next repetition statements Chapter 11
6/17/2009 Select Case Multiple-selection statement Chapter 12
Function Procedures and Sub Procedures Chapter 13
6/22/2009 Scope, Pass-By-Reference and Option Strict Chapter 15
6/24/2009 Review and Exam discussion Chapter 1-15
6/29/2009 Mid-Term Exam Chapter 1-15
7/1/2009 Random Number generation, 1–15
one dimensional Arrays and Comboboxes Chapter 16
7/6/2009 One dimensional Arrays and Comboboxes Chapter 17
Two dimensional Arrays Chapter 18
7/8/2009 Creating your own Classes and Objects Chapter 19
7/13/2009 Collections and For Each…..Next statement Chapter 20
String Processing Chapter 22
7/15/2009 Sequential Access Files Chapter 23
7/20/2009 Exception Handling Chapter 25
7/22/2009 Database Programming Chapter 24
7/27/2009 Graphics and Printing Chapter 26
7/29/2009 Web Applications Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
8/3/2009 Practice Problems and Exam Review
8/5/2009 No class ( Reading Day)
8/10/2009 Final Exam Chapter 16-30
Home Work 1- 6/1/2009 max marks 40
Homework due dates Home Work 2- 6/8/2009 max marks 40
Home Work 3-6/15/2009 max marks 40
 Home Work 4-6/22/1900 max marks 40
Home Work 5-7/10/2009 max marks 60
Home Work 6-7/17/2009 max marks 60
Home Work 7-7/24/2009 max marks 60
Home Work 8-7/31/2009 max marks 60
Homework Policy: The programming assignments should be done
individually. You should submit the assignment answer
sheet or a zipped copy containing the entire project folder
via WebCT only.

Course Policies
Exam I 30%
Exam II 30%
Homework 40%
Total 100%

The following cut offs will be used to assign the final grade.

Range Grade Range Grade

Grading 96 - 100 A+ 91 - 95 A
(credit) Criteria 86 - 90 A- 81 - 85 B+
76 - 80 B 71 - 75 B-
67 - 70 C+ 63 - 66 C
59 - 62 C- 56 - 58 D+
53 - 55 D 50 - 52 D-
< 50 F

However I may consider relative grading scheme depending on the class

performance. The student with the highest grade in the class will be
normalized to a 100%. The rest of the students will be normalized
accordingly. Note that the curve will not exceed 5% of the student's score.

Make-up No make-up tests will be offered except on medical grounds. You will be
Exams required to provide necessary documentation.
All assignments are to be submitted via WebCT. The deadline for submitting
an assignment is 11:00 pm on the due date. Late submissions can be
Late Work
submitted via WebCT upto 24 hours after the deadline. Assignments
submitted within 24 hours after the due date/time will be subject to a 25%
 penalty. No late submissions will be accepted 24 hours after the deadline.
No points are awarded for attendance. However, students are expected to
attend all classes and to read the assigned material. Students are expected to
keep abreast of any announcements made in class. I will post information
Class about significant changes, if any, to the syllabus. This is only to be used as a
Attendance supplement, and not as a substitute, to announcements made in class. I may
not be able to help a student who skips a class on regular basis. Also, if a
student misses a class, he/she is expected to get in touch of the fellow
students to find out the material covered in that class.

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Plagiarism, especially from the web, from portions of papers for other classes,
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university’s policy on plagiarism (see general catalog for details). This
 course will use the resources of turnitin.com, which searches the web for
possible plagiarism and is over 90% effective.

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Procedures
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Grades unavoidably missed at the semester’s end and only if 70% of the course work
 has been completed. An incomplete grade must be resolved within eight (8)
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Days
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Course found at
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