JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER INFORMATION

AND OFFICE SYSTEMS

COURSE SYLLABUS

Course Prefix and Number CIS 230

Course Title Visual BASIC for Windows

Curriculum Computer Information Systems

Semester Hours 4

Lecture 4

Lab 0

Prerequisites CIS 130 or 136 or equivalent

Catalog Description

The students will do design, coding, testing, documentation and evaluation of various Visual BASIC projects. Projects will include the use of sequential access files, random access files, database access, and variable arrays.

Course Objectives: See attached

Prepared by: Reviewed by:

Tim Vanderwall Ram Raghuraman

Dept. of CIOS Updated 12/00 Department Chairperson Date

Revised 12/99

Revised 7/97

Revised 12/93

Revised 2/92

Revised 11/91

STUDENT MATERIALS

A. Textbooks:

Title: Programming w/ Microsoft - Visual Basic 6.0

Author: Zak

Publisher: Course Technology

B. Other Required Materials

Five 3.5 diskettes

Other Course Requirements

Student Evaluation (Type of Grading)

Student evaluation will be based on the following:

1. Midterm exam and Final exam;

2. Homework assignments;

3. Activities in the text;

4. Other class assignments given by the instructor.

Week Assignment

1 An Overview of Visual Basic

2 Tutorial 1 – An Introduction to Visual Basic

3 Tutorial 2 – Designing Applications

4 Tutorial 3 – Using Variables and Constants

5 Tutorial 4 – The Selection Structure

6 Tutorial 4 – The Selection Structure, continued.

7 Tutorial 5 – The Repetition Structure

8 Midterm Exam – Review and complete Tutorials 1-5

9 Tutorial 6 – Sequential Access Files, Menus, and Reports

10 Tutorial 7 – Dialog Boxes and Error Trapping

11 Tutorial 8 – Random Access Files

12 Tutorial 8 – Random Access Files, continued.

13 Tutorial 9 – Database Access

14 Tutorial 9 – Database Access, continued.

15 Tutorial 10 – Variable Arrays

16 Final Exam

OBJECTIVES

1. The student will learn how to properly plan and code increasingly more difficult object- oriented, event-driven programs using Microsoft Visual Basic.

2. The student will incorporate procedural programming concepts into the VB environment.

3. The student will learn how to create user-friendly screens, forms, reports, etc. using the windows controls available in VB.

4. The student will learn how to create and manipulate sequential and direct access files, and

databases.

5. The student will learn to use variable arrays.