Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

3.10. Wrap-Up

We discussed many features of Visual Basic in this chapter, including displaying data on the screen, inputting data from the keyboard and declaring variables of primitive types Integer and Double. You used the WriteLine, Write and ReadLine methods of class Console to build simple interactive programs that input and output text. You learned how to use the arithmetic operators to perform calculations, and the order in which Visual Basic applies these operators (i.e., the rules of operator precedence). We demonstrated how Visual Basic’s If...Then statement allows a program to perform actions based on a condition. You created conditions using the equality and relational operators. We demonstrated several features of Visual Basic 2005 ...