Visual Basic

What aspect do you need help with? As you are in a programming class couldn't you enlist the help of one of your professors?

Basically you start by defining the problem that your program will solve. Consider what features you will need, and then design an interface for it - as you are using VB that part is easy. Then write the code to provide functionality for all the objects in your user interface.

Good luck

Bill

yeah bill is right.. basically create a list of your requirements and section them off into logical groups.. then you need to define the inputs and outputs of each logical group and interaction between them..

from there break down your groups and define any functionality they are to have and from there you can define any objects you want to create (which would become a class)..

ie.. you would have an assignment object which may have the properties
- assignment id
- assignment name
- assignment description
- assignment due date
- assignment author (linked to an author obejct)

Author:
- author id
- author first name
- etc

in you screen you may have a drop down box of authors or a list of assignments. Click on an item and it will be displayed -> get id -> goto your database and read the table (maybe via a stored proc or direct sql) -> fill your object up and display...

This should give you some idea..

basically though dont jump into coding without first defining what you need to do and how you will do it..

steve

What type of application you are developing? If you are developing simple database application it would be easy

VB is a great language. Easy to learn and quite powerful.

If I were you i would start by designing your database schema. For a database i would recommend using XML/XSLT. Visual Studio comes with some pretty good tools to design your xml schema.

Once your schema is done, on paper or in a program like Visio work out the flow of your application, and also us it to prototype an interface layout.

Once you get through all that you can use your Visio layout as a work flow model and start building the actual program interface and code.

As a rule i always test each major piece of code as i go along. Test it throughly, try to make it crash. Fix, move on to next major functionality.

PHP is a script language.
You don't compile it to machine code.

And you should go for Object Oriented code.

It is an user defined language,But comparatively good than others.

At first..
define your problem
difficulties that end users might be experiencing
inputs you will be needing
process you ill be doing
outputs you will be producing
errors you might encounter during the process

create a flowchart

You might want to check out some VB programming forums like Xtreme Visual Basic Talk - Powered by vBulletin or VBForums - Visual Basic and VB .NET Discussions and More!

This is for example for you research moreon date and time functioni am helping ith part of codes:
Dim dtmTest As Date

dtmTest = DateValue(Now)

Dim dtmTest As Date

dtmTest = TimeValue(Now)

intDOW = Weekday(Now) ' intDOW = 6


When necessary to refer to a day of the week in code, VB has a set of built-in constants that can be used instead of the hard-coded values 1 thru 7:

Constant Value

vbSunday 1

vbMonday 2

vbTuesday 3

vbWednesday 4

vbThursday 5

vbFriday 6

vbSaturday 7


Example:

intMonth = Month(Now) ' intMonth = 8

Example:

intDay = Day(Now) ' intDay = 31try to arrange in logic

best of luck



SANDY

Why not write it in Excel/VBA?
Fairly easy to do, lots of help forums on the internet to assist you.

desertofwater:
I realize this thread is spread out over a long period of time. But at the chance that you are receiving email notifications I thought I'd respond.

VB6 is already long outdated. I am a programmer who began my journey in VB4 more than 15 years ago and have followed the various replacement technologies ever since.

I would recommend skipping straight to VB.net if you can. This jump was pretty big from VB to VB.net, but each successive jump after that is not as hard. My current favorite language/environment is C#.

Eitherway your original question is the same regardless of the language. Define your problem, then your requirements for the program. Prototype an interface and then add funcitonality.

Visual Basic is the third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming model. VB is also considered a relatively easy to learn and use programming language, because of its graphical development features and BASIC heritage.

Basically produce a list of your requirements as well as section them off into logical groups then you need to define the inputs as well as outturns of each logical group as well as interaction between them.

use VB.net it really easy to use and has OOP.