Although the book can be treated as a stand-alone text examining the development of an event-driven system, it also encourages students to implement their solution in a programming language. This enables a full appreciation of where each stage in program design fits within the overall system development life cycle.

This textbook is intended for use in an introductory programming subject that assumes no prior knowledge of computer programming.

Program Design through Visual Basic uses Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows as the implementation language for many of the systems discussed. Visual Basic is the most popular language for the development of PC-based client-server applications.

Contents:
• Problem Solving and Computer Programming
• Defining the Problem
• Data Input, Program Variables and Data Type
• Pseudocode and Control Structures
• Testing and Debugging a Program
• Algorithm Design
• Modules and Parameter Passing
• Functions
• Accessing Databases
• Data and Control Systems
• Documenting the System
• File Processing
• Searching, Sorting and Grouping

ISBN: 1 875415 72 6 (paperback), 1 875415 73 4 (hardcover)
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