Visual Basic, Wanted: VB Textbook for High School

Wanted: VB Textbook for High School

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L.Cas #1 / 7	Wanted: VB Textbook for High School Can someone recommend a good text book for teaching Visual Basic at the High School level? Most of the VB books like "Teach Yourself VB" are not aimed at high school ages. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks in advance, Les in Brazil
Sun, 25 Nov 2001 03:00:00 GMT

Kevin Williams #2 / 7	Wanted: VB Textbook for High School I would suggest the 'Teach Yourself Visual Basic 5 in 21 Days' from Sams Publishing (there are probably several publishers printing versions of Teach Yourself...). The class I took (it was college level though) was very simple with that book. The professor didn't know anything about VB so she just told us to go through each chapter, following the instructions, and show her the results. The instructions in each chapter are very detailed and explain step-by-step how to create each program. Quote: >Can someone recommend a good text book for teaching Visual Basic at >the High School level? Most of the VB books like "Teach Yourself VB" >are not aimed at high school ages. >Any suggestions would be helpful. >Thanks in advance, >Les in Brazil
Sun, 25 Nov 2001 03:00:00 GMT

Odin #3 / 7	Wanted: VB Textbook for High School Wow, I guess that would suffice for a {filter}-new to programming class. but at the college level? I took a VB 1 level class at a local community college not too long ago and there was a textbook, but we hardly used it. The entire class was applications based. You were given skeleton code for the first 3 projects, then nothing. 5 major projects, 5 minor projects and a final. I learned more in that one class than any three books could teach me! The teacher took us into the lab every three classes to field questions and help with projects. One thing though, the attrition rate was about 70% by the end of semester. Most of the other students were taking too heavy a load. I was only taking this class and working. But then I worked my {filter}off to the tune of 50 hrs. coding + a week to do it! If you can find such a class nearby, take it. You won't regret it. Quote: >I would suggest the 'Teach Yourself Visual Basic 5 in 21 Days' from >Sams Publishing (there are probably several publishers printing >versions of Teach Yourself...). The class I took (it was college >level though) was very simple with that book. The professor didn't >know anything about VB so she just told us to go through each chapter, >following the instructions, and show her the results. The >instructions in each chapter are very detailed and explain >step-by-step how to create each program. >>Can someone recommend a good text book for teaching Visual Basic at >>the High School level? Most of the VB books like "Teach Yourself VB" >>are not aimed at high school ages.
Sun, 25 Nov 2001 03:00:00 GMT

Pat #4 / 7	Wanted: VB Textbook for High School I teach from a book called "Using Visual Basic" 2nd Edition by Sprague. I teach a Computer II and Computer III from the same book, I split it in half. The students are grades 10 -12. This last year was the first year I used this book and it seems to explain fairly well, but it does jump around quite a bit (i.e. from controls, to keywords, to properties, back to another control, ect...). The book does have several programs that it walks the students through, which is very helpful. It also comes with a workbook and a solutions disk of all the excercises and problems. Hope this helps! ** Posted from RemarQ - http://www.remarq.com - Discussions Start Here (tm) **
Sun, 25 Nov 2001 03:00:00 GMT

George Lissaue #5 / 7	Wanted: VB Textbook for High School Check out Learn to Program with Visual Basic. The book uses a classroom situation to teach Visual Basic. Its for beginners and covers the concepts of programming, windows programming and programming Visual Basic. I have a review of it at my site: www.gridlinx.com ... George GridLinx Software Programming Tools for VB Programmers Quote: > >>Can someone recommend a good text book for teaching Visual Basic at > >>the High School level? Most of the VB books like "Teach Yourself VB" > >>are not aimed at high school ages. -- Remove NOSPAM from address before replying.
Sun, 25 Nov 2001 03:00:00 GMT

Kevin Williams #6 / 7	Wanted: VB Textbook for High School Yeah, very simple for college level. The problem is that at my school the CS major is half programming, half theory. The programming is C++, IBM 360/370 assembler, and Cobol. This is the only VB class that they teach so the professor doesn't bother to learn anything past the Teach Yourself in 21 Days. I was interested; however, so I learned more and now I spend 40+ hours a week working at home writing a VB program for a company. Quote: >Wow, I guess that would suffice for a {filter}-new to programming class. but at >the college level? >I took a VB 1 level class at a local community college not too long ago and >there was a textbook, but we hardly used it. The entire class was >applications based. You were given skeleton code for the first 3 projects, >then nothing. 5 major projects, 5 minor projects and a final. I learned more >in that one class than any three books could teach me! The teacher took us >into the lab every three classes to field questions and help with projects. >One thing though, the attrition rate was about 70% by the end of semester. >Most of the other students were taking too heavy a load. I was only taking >this class and working. >But then I worked my {filter}off to the tune of 50 hrs. coding + a week to do >it! If you can find such a class nearby, take it. You won't regret it. >>I would suggest the 'Teach Yourself Visual Basic 5 in 21 Days' from >>Sams Publishing (there are probably several publishers printing >>versions of Teach Yourself...). The class I took (it was college >>level though) was very simple with that book. The professor didn't >>know anything about VB so she just told us to go through each chapter, >>following the instructions, and show her the results. The >>instructions in each chapter are very detailed and explain >>step-by-step how to create each program. >>>Can someone recommend a good text book for teaching Visual Basic at >>>the High School level? Most of the VB books like "Teach Yourself VB" >>>are not aimed at high school ages.
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 03:00:00 GMT

Edward Mille #7 / 7	Wanted: VB Textbook for High School I taught it from An Introduction to Programming Using Visual Basic 4.0, published by Prentice Hall. You might call them and see if it has been updated for VB5 or VB6, whichever you are using. Another nice thing about this book was it came with a VB Learning Edition CD so the student did not have to buy it separately. Ed Quote: >Can someone recommend a good text book for teaching Visual Basic at >the High School level? Most of the VB books like "Teach Yourself VB" >are not aimed at high school ages. >Any suggestions would be helpful. >Thanks in advance, >Les in Brazil
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 03:00:00 GMT

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