Tony Gaddis - Starting Out With Visual Basic, 7/e

Seventh Edition

Seventh Edition

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gaddis, Tony, author. | Irvine, Kip R., author.

Title: Starting out with Visual Basic / Tony Gaddis, Haywood Community College, Kip Irvine, Florida International University.

Description: Seventh edition. | Boston : Pearson, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016000100 | ISBN 9780134400150 | ISBN 0134400151

Subjects: LCSH: Visual Basic (Computer program language)

Classification: LCC QA76.73.M53 G33 2016 | DDC 005.26/8dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016000100

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ISBN 10: 0-13-440015-1

ISBN 13: 978-0-13-440015-0

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Welcome to Starting Out with Visual Basic, Seventh Edition. This book is intended for use in an introductory programming course. It is designed for students who have no prior programming background, but even experienced students will benefit from its depth of detail and the chapters covering databases, Web applications, and other advanced topics. The book is written in clear, easy-to-understand language and covers all the necessary topics of an introductory programming course. The text is rich in concise, practical, and real-world example programs, so the student not only learns how to use the various controls, constructs, and features of Visual Basic, but also learns why and when to use them.

• The book is completely updated for Visual Basic 2015This book was revised and tested using Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition.

• still covers the same topics, but the chapter has been rewritten with fresh new tutorials and a more streamlined organization.

• so the material on variables, data types, and calculations appears first, followed by the material on GUI creation. As a result, there is a stronger emphasis on coding fundamentals. Several new tutorials have also been added to the chapter.

• A New Section on the PrintDialog Control has a new section on the PrintDialog control, which allows the user to select a printer, or a PDF driver, if one is installed on the system.

• Coverage of the CType Method now has a section on the CType method, which provides convenient type conversion for objects.

• New programming ProblemsMany new programming problems have been added throughout the book.

• Code improvementsThroughout the book, many of the code examples have been improved.