Help im a year 11 student sturgglign with SDD (1 Viewer)

[v sia]

Im learning VB
Im very lost
I had trouble with Q basic

Anyway ...
i just need help with how to get the program ( downloading ) etc.
and a website that helps newbs like me with VB

 

[sunny]

You can buy academic versions of Visual Basic for fairly cheap. Alot of books on VB also have version of VB on them that allow you to code but not compile to exe. See if your school can help you here - they're license might allow you to get a copy from them.

Look several threads up, and you'll see A Comprehensive list of Source Code Websites and Programming Sites

 

[gress]

since when is vb in the sdd syllabus? :|

http://www.vbtutor.net/vbtutor.html

 

[sunny]

Originally posted by gress
since when is vb in the sdd syllabus? :|

http://www.vbtutor.net/vbtutor.html

The syllabus doesn't specify any languages. Its upto the school to pick.

 

[Merforga]

Vb is just easier to use.

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by Merforga
Vb is just easier to use.

though , VB6 gets you in the bad habit of doing things that aren't OOP, i know some people's transition from VB6 to fully OOP was a little hard, esp when in VB6, showing a form was just FormName.Show, while in fully OOP you have to instantiate an instance of the form yourself.

 

[enter~space~cap]

u have trouble with SDD.....
its normal, trust me

http://www.planetsourcecode.com/
http://www.free-ed.net/fr03/lfc/030202/120/
http://www.garybeene.com/vb/

 

[Kulazzi]

Thanx futmuscle for the links, the first one really helps

 

[your_all_noobs]

OMG mate you are the biggest NOOB IN NOOB HISTORY

 

[jason120au]

VB is quite easy, much easier then others like PHP which I can't understand at all. Partly because I did some programming in Year 10 before the beginning of the HSC.

You've got to remember to declare your variables before you begin using the program and remember to use "Meaningful variable Names". You do this under the general tab at the top of the coding window.

Even though I have probably got this wrong but if you are assigning values in which you set to a text box that is drawn on the screen

it is just say
Price = txtprice.text
Remember the .text part is the property you want VB to get data out of.

VB as people have said annoyingly guides you through typing values it thinks you want to use. But it isn't as bad as some programs, ie MS word.

 

[J0n]

Originally posted by jason120au
VB is quite easy, much easier then others like PHP which I can't understand at all.

I'm not quite sure about that - PHP seems to have a function for almost everything!

 

[jason120au]

Your probably right, but whenever I code in PHP it usually never works. I really need to do a course in it.

 

[acidicFury]

Originally posted by Winston
though , VB6 gets you in the bad habit of doing things that aren't OOP, i know some people's transition from VB6 to fully OOP was a little hard, esp when in VB6, showing a form was just FormName.Show, while in fully OOP you have to instantiate an instance of the form yourself.

Do you know much about OOP yourself?

I don't really see many bad habits that could be developed from using FormName.show - it's used inside a function. Classes will be made up from functions/methods, with the class needing an object instantiated of it before the methods can be called. Nothing hard if you understand your classes & objects and the differences between them.

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by acidicFury
Do you know much about OOP yourself?

I don't really see many bad habits that could be developed from using FormName.show - it's used inside a function. Classes will be made up from functions/methods, with the class needing an object instantiated of it before the methods can be called. Nothing hard if you understand your classes & objects and the differences between them.

It's bad habit in terms of transition, some people who have started off in VB and have stayed in there and moving to fully OOP would find it difficult.