Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

Summary

Whew! You have moved from nonprogrammer to a Visual Basic decision-making and looping programmer in just a few short chapters! Your head may be spinning, and that's okay. The next chapter takes a quick break and has some fun with Visual Basic graphics. Then, Chapter 10, “Advanced Visual Basic Programming,” continues your tutorial with a complete walkthrough of an application, from start to finish, using loops and decision statements. With this language background, by the time you finish the next two chapters, you will feel comfortable inside Visual Basic.

• Decision statements such as If and Select Case make your programs smarter. They can determine which code to execute based on data in variables or from controls on the form.

• The Select ...