These tutorials are designed to help you quickly get programming in Visual Basic. Each off the videos builds on the previous ones so work through them in order. If you get stuck watch that part of the video again and think back to the earlier projects you worked on. Everything you see in the videos has been explained in one of the tutorials.
Video
Running Time
8 Mins
Learning Objectives
How to use Visual Basic to make a simple Windows program
Content
The IDE workspace. Working with properties
12 Mins
How to use variables to store values
Using an integer variable to keep the score
9 Mins
How to use selection statements to branch code. How & why to make subroutines
Nested if, Select case and using Sub routines
16 Mins
How to use operators (add, subtract etc). How to use a simple Maths function (square root). .
Using the double data type.
Validation using a Try statement. Math.sqrt()
17 Mins
Practicing skills learnt by putting them all together to make a playable game
Putting everything together in one playable game