| Week | Information Assignments due in one week and programs in two weeks unless otherwise stated |
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| Week #1 Assignments Week ending January 25th |
Read chapter #1 and #2 in the text. If you choose to use another book, the topics to read about are Installing and Configuring Visual Basic, Interfacing with the user including MDI and SDI, Windows Common Controls (which we might get to next week or it might be another week). Review the programs done in class: PRMDIBasics.VBP, PRMDIBasicsA.vbp, PRMDICustomer.vbp. Also look at the presentations on these topics: MDImenucontrol and MDIwinmenu. Send me an a summary of your experience with Visual Basic. You must have access to the Professional version of VB which would include help to take this course! Some of the topics require full versions instead of student versions. Read the first chapter in the text for additional information. Make all work portable so that I can run it off any drive. I do not want to deal with hardcoded paths. However if a problem develops send me all things ready to run on the root of the A drive. That means after all is working, save to the A drive and test there. Send me that working model and I too will test off the A drive! Let me know if you have done this. |
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| Week #2 Assignments Week ending February 1st |
Continue reading chapters #1 and #2 and checking the presentations and programs
about SDI and the muffins series. Start reading chapter #3. First assignment | |
| Week #3 Assignments Week ending February 8th |
Please look at the last program about Popup menus at the bottom of Combined SDI/MDI. Also you need to look at the programs under controls and dynamic and the accompany slide presentations under controls. Please read chapter #3 and make sure you are comfortable with the concepts of designing a relational database and third normal form. Start reading chapter #4. Some information on relational databases and third normal form is at my Oracle site: Handout on definitions: Normalization definitions Also view the slide presentation on normalization: Normalization - information on third normal form Separate speaker notes for normalization presentation Second assignment |
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| Week #4 Assignments Week ending February 15th |
Please review ADO by looking at the text book, programs, notes and the PowerPoint presentations. I would also like you to experiment with the Data Environment and Data Report Designer - do something simple that is not to be passed in. Read chapter #4 and start reading chapter #5 in the text. Be sure you are comfortable with the concepts of SQL - basic information is available at this site but you might also look for a web source as a supplement. Experiment with using SQL in ADO. Please look at the additional ADO examples and the PowerPoint presentation! First ADO assignment |
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| Week #5 Assignments Week ending February 22nd |
Please look at the examples on Data Environment and the Power Point presentations.
Also start looking at the update examples! First Data Environment assignment |
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| Week #6 Assignments Week ending March 1st |
Please look at the rest of the projects added under Data Environment and the
projects under Coded Connections. Continue looking at the update examples under Data Environment this week. Please look at the PowerPoint presentations on these topics! Please start reading chapter #6. Assignment: Take one of the programs that you have done using the ADO Data control or the Data Environment and modify it so that all of the code is in the program and you do not need the either the ADO Data Control or the Data Environment. |
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| Week #7 Assignments Week ending March 8th |
Look at the programs under shape language. Also look at the update program. Your
assignment is to analyze the update program and do the related assignment. Note, if you download the update, be sure to download the .frx as well - there is a connection in it to the combo box, so... Assignment using Update Program |
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| Week #8 Assignments Week ending March 15th |
Look at the editing changes in the update program - new version Go over chapter #6 very well! Look at the Class Item series of programs and the SavAcctCls series of programs. Your assignment involves SavAcctCls02 or SavAcctCls03. On to the assignment: There is a button on the form called Apply Interest that does nothing. I want this button to update the balance by including the interest. I would do this using simple interest, when the button is clicked the current balance should be increased by balance times interest rate. This should be done as a class method. In addition to interest rate, you should add a button that can be clicked to subtract a bank fee from the balance. This should be handled as a method. Just a suggestion, but I would consider going through the entire step by step process that the book sets up for chapter #6. I found it a good way to make sure I did not skip anything being covered in the chapter. Look at the presentations that accompany class item and savings accounts. Vacation next week - time to get caught up! |
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| Week #9 Assignments Week ending March 29th |
We will focus on the class concept this week! Start reading chapter #7 for next week. Class assignment |
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| Week #10 Assignments Week ending April 5th |
We will cover using classes and Access databases. Please look at the program under
SavAcct07 which deals with class and database and check out the PowerPoint
presentation as well! Your assignment is to modify the class program that you were assigned last week so it uses a database. It must be able to add records to the database, retrieve records from the database, change records on the database and delete records from the database. For next week please read chapter #8 and we will deal with ActiveX. |
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| Week #11 Assignments Week ending April 12th |
Please look at examples and presentations on DLL, EXE, Word and Excel. Assignment:Use SavAcct07 and set up the DLL (In-Process) for the class modules. You need to duplicate what I did in the PowerPoint presentation on DLL. Please read chapter #9. |
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| Week #12 Assignments Week ending April 19th |
Chapter #9 is the topic this week. We cover ActiveX Controls. Please see the sample notes and the
PowerPoint presentation. Assignment: Modify the key pad ActiveX Control so that it acts like a calculator and does addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. |
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| Week #13 Assignments Week ending April 26th |
Please read chapter #10 and look at the
Internet programs and Internet presentation I have put out on the Web. If you do
not know HTML, it would be good to look over the basics. You can either find an
HTML tutorial or you can look at the Notes I have under CIS44 - first week or so
is enough! Please note that I had a very serious problems with my email today (4/24). I think I finally got everything, but if you sent me something today and I do not get it back to you sometime next week, please send me an email asking if I got it. Assignment Part 1:Set up Internet controls to browse the web. Assignment Part 2:Create two linking DHTML pages that take in information and do calculations based on that information. The amount of work that you do will influence the grade! |
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| Week #14 Week ending May 3rd |
Catch up week! The final and status sheet are ready - let me know when to send them to you. | |
| Week #15 Week ending May 10th |
Another catch up week! You should also be taking the final!
The final must be emailed to my usual address and to pgrocer@bristol.mass.edu.
The final is due on May 14th at 4:00. Contact me about the final - I will email it to you! |