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A different approach of teaching introductory visual basic course

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Keyuan Jiang,

John Maniotes,

Reza KamaliAuthors Info & Claims

CITC5 '04: Proceedings of the 5th conference on Information technology education

Pages 219 - 223

https://doi.org/10.1145/1029533.1029586

Published: 28 October 2004 Publication History

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Microsoft Visual Basic has been widely used in developing business applications. Traditionally, the language has been taught using the Graphical User Interface (GUI) first approach due to the limitation of the language itself. The full support of object orientation in the release of .NET versions of the language and the wide proliferation of component-based application development demand a different approach of teaching Visual Basic. Based upon the new editions of the language, we devised a different approach of teaching Visual Basic by introducing basic procedural programming and object-oriented programming concepts using console applications, and complementarily blending GUI and object-oriented programming techniques together to enhance students' understanding of different programming techniques. During the course, we also introduce the Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagram to our students to help them visualize and formulate Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts. At the end of the course, each student is assigned to a project of creating a GUI program that consumes some Web service by applying programming techniques they learned in the course. Responses from a student survey on the course demonstrate the plausibility and the encouraging outcome of the approach.

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Gutiérrez LGuerrero CLópez-Ospina H(2022)Ranking of problems and solutions in the teaching and learning of object-oriented programmingEducation and Information Technologies10.1007/s10639-022-10929-527:5(7205-7239)Online publication date: 8-Feb-2022
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3423956

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A different approach of teaching introductory visual basic course
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Information systems education
      2. Model curricula
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Object oriented development
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments
      2. Object oriented frameworks
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Object oriented languages

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CITC5 '04: Proceedings of the 5th conference on Information technology education

October 2004

300 pages

ISBN:1581139365

DOI:10.1145/1029533

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Brigham Young University
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Rochester Institute of Technology

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Gutiérrez LGuerrero CLópez-Ospina H(2022)Ranking of problems and solutions in the teaching and learning of object-oriented programmingEducation and Information Technologies10.1007/s10639-022-10929-527:5(7205-7239)Online publication date: 8-Feb-2022
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Lukkarinen AMalmi LHaaranen L(2021)Event-driven Programming in Programming EducationACM Transactions on Computing Education10.1145/342395621:1(1-31)Online publication date: 16-Mar-2021
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