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Visual
Basic Teacher's Resources
The simple
purpose of this page is to list Internet resources of value to teachers on the
Visual Basic programming language. If you have any suggestions, please send them
to me at act2@acthompson.net
Here are some useful web sites.
Visual Basic 2005 FAQ for teachers.
My Dot Net for Teachers page - more general
than this page it also has links for J# and for Advanced Placement Computer
Science teachers.
Absolute
Beginners Guide to Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition A video tutorial
for Visual Basic 2005 Express.
Visual Basic Project Books
Visual Basic .NET Projects
- A set of projects for the classroom. There are teachers notes for each project
as well as pages that can be duplicated for distribution to students as
programming assignments. This is an updated version of the VB 6.0 book
with additional projects.
Visual Basic 6.0 Projects
- An older version of the VB .NET project book but written for VB 6.0.
Articles and Projects
An article I wrote on creating control
arrays. This article covers both Visual Basic .NET and C#. It is suitable
for beginners. Teachers who are used to teaching with control arrays in Visual
Basic 6.0 and earlier will find this useful.
Simon is a simple game I wrote. Simon is a game that involves four different
colored buttons that randomly depress and beep. The player then has to press the
buttons in the same order that they beeped. This most useful part of this
project is a special button class that inherits from the PictureBox object.
With Visual Studio .NET files on a network
share may give an error. This error is caused by a security setting designed to
protect the machine that Visual Studio .NET is running on.
This is a set of instructions on
setting the network share as trusted so the you can operate without the error
message. Teaching Specific Sites
MainFunction.com
- An on-line community for computer teachers in high school and College. There
are online forums there that are very useful for
asking questions. There are a lot of resources (projects, articles, book
reviews, etc) there.
www.msdnaa.net
- If you are a teacher/professor of computer science this is a program you
really want to look into for your school. This is the best way to get
development software (Visual Studio .NET) for your school. It includes a license
to install software on all faculty and lab systems as well as letting students
install on their personal systems.
Computer Science Teacher Blog -
This is where I blog on a regular basis about things I think would be helpful
and/or useful for computer science teachers.
General Visual Basic Sites
Microsoft
Visual Basic Start Page -
This is where to start for Visual Basic information at Microsoft's web
site.
Coding4Fun - a website for
the student or hobby programmer who is looking to write code for fun.
VB-Helper This web
site has a lot of useful pieces of sample code in Visual Basic. This is a good
place to look for "how to do" examples.
VBRun
- I highly recommend that teachers upgrade to Visual Basic .NET (See my
DotNet page for information about VB .NET)
But if you are not going to upgrade than the Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Resource
Center is a place you want to go.
Shameless Plug
My most recent textbook is the third edition of
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET BASICS with Todd Knowlton and Stephen Collings.
It is from Course Technology and is designed
for middle/high school students. The second edition which is for Visual Basic
.NET 2002 and which works well with 2003 is still available. Amazon links are
below.
I have an older book for VB 6 titled Visual
Basic FUNdamentals. Computer Literacy
Press publishes it and they have a lot of information about it, including a
table of contents and several sample chapters, at their web site. If you are
sticking with VB 6.0 I think you'll like this book. Click on the
book title above to be taken there. Or go to Amazon.com
using the link below and order it there!
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