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Introduction to Visual Basic: Program Planning, Flowcharts, and Controls

This guide provides an overview of Visual Basic, focusing on its user-friendly graphical interface, controls, and event-driven programming. You'll learn about program planning methods, including flowcharting, to enhance your coding skills. Discover the reasons for using Visual Basic, such as its portability, modularity, and rich set of controls. The piece covers the creation and management of projects, including designing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and writing event procedures. Ideal for beginners looking to dive into computer programming with Visual Basic.

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Introduction to Visual Basic: Program Planning, Flowcharts, and Controls

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  1. CE 311 KIntroduction to Computer Methods VB Controls and Events Daene C. McKinney

  2. Introduction • Program Planning and Flowcharts • Visual Basic • Visual basic Interface • VB Controls • Creating a Project

  3. Why Visual Basic? • #1 Reasons • Graphical User Interface (GUI) - easily constructed • More fun for students than other languages! • The “other” reasons • General purpose, machine-independent language • Powerful and flexible language • Popular (used by many programmers, it’s been around since …. well MS DOS. Yeah, Bill Gates wrote it!) • Portable (works on all PC’s) • Small language (few components) • Modular (easily maintainable)

  4. VB Programs • Developing a VB Program • Design the GUI (buttons, text boxes, etc.) • Determine the events that the controls (buttons, etc.) will recognize • Write the procedures for those events • Running a VB Program • VB monitors the controls in the window for events • When it detects an event, execute procedure for that event • Return to monitoring • Sounds easy, but it can be frustrating! What’s an EVENT? CLICK! What’s a PROCEDURE? RUN? Is this a race?

  5. Flowcharting This can save your &^%$ when you lose track of what you’re doing! • Flowchart • Graphic representation of the sequence of steps in a process • Flowchart Symbols • Start/Stop • Line • Input/Output • Processing • Decision Start no Decision yes Process Stop

  6. Example: Stamp Problem Program Purpose: Determine the proper number of stamps for a letter • Read sheets • Set the number of stamps to sheets/5 • Round the number of stamps up to the next whole number • Display the number of stamps Pseudocode Flowchart Start Read sheets Input Set stamps = sheets/5 Processing Round stamps up To next whole # Processing Display stamps Output End

  7. Is condition True? Yes No Process Step(s) 2 Process Step(s) 1 Decisions If condition is true, then Process step(s) 1 Else Process step(s) 2 End if Pseudocode Flowchart

  8. Start Sum=0 Count = 0 InputGrade Sum = Sum + Grade Count = Count + 1 More grades? Yes No Average = Sum/Count Stop Average Grade Problem Flowchart Pseudocode BEGIN Average Grade sum=0 count = 0 LOOP WHILE grade > 0 sum = sum + grade count = count +1 END LOOP average = sum/count END Average Grade Input Grade Note: We can translate this pseudocode into any programming language. Note: This program will crash if there are no grades input, i.e., count = 0

  9. VB Interface New Project Button

  10. Creating a New Project in VB Windows Forms Application

  11. VB “Form Designer” Window • Project • Controls • Form To activate controls, select “Toolbox” and press “Push-Pin”

  12. VB “Form Designer” Window • Project • Controls • Form

  13. A Little Visual Basic • Controls • Picture boxes (pic) • Text boxes (txt) • Buttons (cmd)

  14. Visual Basic Objects • Useful Objects • List Boxes • Text Boxes • Picture Boxes • Labels • Buttons • Useful Object Properties • Name • Caption • Border style • Visible • Back Color • Alignment • Font

  15. Visual Basic Events • When a VB program runs • A Form and some Controls appear on the screen • Nothing happens until user takes an action • Event • Most Events are associated with Controls • Objects • Programmer writes Codeto respond to events • Procedures

  16. Boxes and Buttons • VB: Object-oriented language • Objects: Controls • Text boxes, Picture boxes, Buttons, etc • Procedures: tasks that objects perform • Dot separates object name from method (TextBox1.TEXT) • Method: Assign text to a text box Button Button code

  17. Creating a Visual Basic Program Identify Problem • Identify Problem • Design Algorithm • Design GUI (interface) • Create Objects • Set Properties • Write Procedures for Events (button clicks, etc.) • Test Your Program Design Algorithm Design GUI Create Objects Set Properties of Objects Write Procedures for Events Test

  18. Homeworks • Install • VB-2008 • from the MS website or the CD at back of the book • Do • Homework problems in VB • Learn • How to create VB projects and solve problems • Make • Screenshots and paste them into Word docs • Use • Your computer

  19. Summary • Program Planning and Flowcharts • Visual Basic • Visual basic Interface • VB Controls • Creating a Project

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