These tutorials are designed to challenge you to develop your Visual Basic skills further. Work through them at your own pace. 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.
When you have finished all the tutorials you should attempt the challenges available on this page to test your skills.
Video
Running Time
14 Mins
Learning Objectives
Looping - How to use different types of loops to make maths sequences.
Content
For... Next
Do... Until
While... End While
10 Mins
Simple arrays - what is an array?
Creating an array.
Outputting an array using a loop.
16 Mins
How to use strings functions to make a phrase tester to count words, vowels, characters etc.
Using strings functions; Mid, Left, Right, Ucase
20 Mins
How to use strings functions to make a Hangman Game
Using strings functions; Mid with looping
9 Mins
How to validate user input - checking user inputer is valid and rejecting it if it isn't.
Range check, Type check, Presence Check, Lookup check
13 Mins
How to save data into a text file and load it back onto the form
Using a streamreader and a streamwriter.
21 Mins
How to work with CSV files (variable length records).
CSV files. If this is too hard skip to the next video for an easier solution.
14 Mins
How to use CSV files with the split function; an easier solution.
CSV files. Using split, to separate one line into values
15 Mins
Problem-solving with arrays to sort a high scores table. Easy and harder solutions..
Problem-solving an algorithm to find solutions. Using a structure.