Course Information
Course Overview
Push your programming skills to Intermediate level and master Visual Basic and WinForms.
Visual Basic language often gets a bad rap, undeservingly. But don’t let that distract you from learning it! Beginners can appreciate its English-like syntax, and more advanced programmers can appreciate its vast libraries and flexibility. It’s part of the .Net family of languages, and as such, it allows you to program some truly amazing solutions. So, congratulations on choosing to learn this amazing language.
It is common experience among programmers that after learning the basics, you realize there is still so much more to learn! And the enthusiasm to learn if often not enough to make the leap from intermediate to more advanced programmer. You need to practice and work on improving your skills.
You see, the bad news is the code fear is real, and it hinders, or even stops your progress. The good news is that you can learn to eliminate it! And all it takes is a little practice and determination. And that’s where this course will help you greatly!
The course goes over variety VB .net programming projects. I show you how to put the theory you learned into practice by showing you how to solve each exercise and walking you through all the Why’s and How’s.
Because the course covers all exercises from scratch, some of the concepts are repeated across multiple exercises. The course doesn’t follow any particular guideline where each exercise builds up on the previous one, but rather serves as a comprehensive reference, allowing students to skip exercises that present concepts the student is already familiar with.
We’ll go on a journey to program intermediate-level solutions using VB .Net techniques and concepts, such as Collections, Databases, OOP, LINQ, and much more.
You will learn how to translate the project requirements into a working code. You will learn to use many different programming concepts and pick the right one for your solution. But most of all, you will learn to think like a programmer!
This course is all about practice. Therefore, to benefit from this course, you need to be an active student. It doesn't matter if you are self-taught VB .Net programmer or attend a programming course. What matters is the time and effort you are willing to put into learning and practicing your skills.
There are no lectures in this course. However, I explain what I am trying to accomplish with each line of code, and touch on common pitfalls, too.
This is a course for intermediate level VB .Net programmers who need to put the concepts and theory they learned into practice, and for people who prefer to learn by doing.
If that's you, then let's code!
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 296 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Basic OOP, FileStream, Enums - Bank Teller Exercise
- Section 3 Basic OOP, FileStream, Enums - Airplane Take Off Exercise
- Section 4 Basic OOP, FileStream, Enums - Workshop Exercise
- Section 5 Basic OOP, FileStream, Enums - Investment Tracking Exercise
- Section 6 Basic OOP, FileStream, Enums - Client Billing Exercise
- Section 7 Basic OOP, FileStream, Enums - Elevator Simulation Exercise
- Section 8 Input, ErrorProvider, Exception Handling - Bank Teller Extended Exercise
- Section 9 Input, ErrorProvider, Exception Handling - Club Committee Exercise
- Section 10 Input, ErrorProvider, Exception Handling - Winter Sports RentalExercise
What You’ll Learn
- Intermediate VB .Net programming concepts
- Various ways to query databases using VB .Net
- Performing CRUD operations using VB .Net
- LINQ to SQL
- Intermediate level OOP concepts
- Collections
- Creating your own VB .Net Libraries
- Unit Testing in VB .Net
- VB .Net Events
- Thinking like a programmer
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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JJohn Vasko
Plenty of good practical examples and sound programming methods.
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AAmos Hubbard
I like the practice with explanations better for my level of understanding than spending a lot of time on low level explanations. Instructor is very knowledgeable and easy to understand. Enjoying it very much!
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RRussell Bishop
I've been programming for a little over a year now and this instructor does a great job at explaining things. He's quick which is also nice and he's extremely helpful. I also like that there are plenty of videos to follow through and he does a great job at showing things on the screen and knows what he's talking about. Very little mistakes made and you can tell he has a great understanding for what he's teaching. I've taken other courses and that's not the case in some of them.
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AAnonymized User
Took this to have a look at VB which I've never worked with. Not always coming to the same solution, not always liking the naming conventions used, but in general I think it gave me a good look into how things works in VB. Thanks Pavol!