Faster Smarter Beginning Programming

If you're an experienced PC user who's never delved into programming but now has the itch, this is the book that will get you started. It presumes you're proficient with Windows and Windows applications, but that you wouldn't know a line of code if it came up and bit you on the, uh, byte.

Of course you want to see how these concepts appear in programming statements, which requires a programming language to use an as example. In the case of this book, that language is Visual Basic .NET. Visual Basic traces its roots to the original BASIC language that John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz developed in 1964 for teaching programming at Dartmouth College, and it's still one of the easiest programming languages to learn. It's also part of more Microsoft products than any other component, and it will serve you in good stead for writing macros, product extensions, and almost anything else not built into the products themselves.

Modern programming would be impossible without the means to divide large problems into smaller ones, to solve the small problems using small units of code, and finally to integrate many small units into a finished whole. Chapters 5 through 8 therefore describe functions, subroutines, classes, objects, modules, and forms. Each of these, in one way or another, make small, focused blocks of code available to other parts of a program.

Programmers have been writing software for more than 50 years now, and even though the job gets easier with each new generation of tools, it remains an intricate and exacting task. Don't expect this book to make you a practiced or professional programmer, but do expect it to make you a fledgling one. From that starting point, you can pursue whatever direction your needs and interests demand.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Introducing Basic Concepts
Chapter 02 - Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
Chapter 03 - Using Elementary Statements
Chapter 04 - Using Operators and Expressions
Chapter 05 - Using Functions and Subroutines
Chapter 06 - Using Built-In Functions
Chapter 07 - Creating Classes and Objects
Chapter 08 - Using Classes, Modules, and Forms
Chapter 09 - Designing and Using Windows Forms
Chapter 10 - Interacting with Windows Form Controls
Chapter 11 - Accessing Databases
Chapter 12 - Programming Web Forms

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