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Merging the concept of a lab manual with that of a conventional textbook, the authors have crafted an innovative approach that enables students to learn programming while having a mentor-like book by their side.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• [Important: See www.deitel.com/books/SimplyVB2008/ for the latest table of contents.]
• 1 Drawing Application
• Introducing Computers, the Internet and Visual Basic
• 1.1 What Is a Computer?
• 1.2 Computer Organization
• 1.3 Machine Languages, Assembly Languages and High-Level Languages
• 1.4 Visual Basic
• 1.5 Other High-Level Languages
• 1.6 Structured Programming
• 1.7 Key Software Trend: Object Technology
• 1.8 The Internet and the World Wide Web
• 1.9 Introduction to Microsoft .Net
• 1.10 Test-Driving the Visual Basic Drawing Application
• 1.11 Web Resources
• 1.12 Wrap-Up
• 2 Welcome Application
• Introducing the Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition IDE
• 2.1 Test-Driving the Welcome Application
• 2.2 Overview of the Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition IDE
• 2.3 Creating a Project for the Welcome Application
• 2.4 Menu Bar and Toolbar
• 2.5 Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition IDE Windows
• 2.6 Auto-Hide
• 2.7 Using Help
• 2.8 Saving and Closing Projects in Visual Basic
• 2.9 Web Resources
• 2.10 Wrap-Up
• 3 Welcome Application
• Introduction to Visual Programming
• 3.1 Test-Driving the Welcome Application
• 3.2 Constructing the Welcome Application
• 3.3 Objects Used in the Welcome Application
• 3.4 Wrap-Up
• 4 Designing the Inventory Application
• Introducing Text
• Boxes and Buttons
• 4.1 Test-Driving the Inventory Application
• 4.2 Constructing the Inventory Application
• 4.3 Adding Labels to the Inventory Application
• 4.4 Adding Text
• Boxes and a Button to the Form
• 4.5 Wrap-Up
• 5 Completing the Inventory Application
• Introducing Programming
• 5.1 Test-Driving the Inventory Application
• 5.2 Introduction to Visual Basic Code
• 5.3 Inserting an Event Handler
• 5.4 Performing a Calculation and Displaying the Result
• 5.5 Using the Debugger: Syntax Errors
• 5.6 Wrap-Up
• 6 Enhancing the Inventory Application
• Introducing Variables, Memory Concepts and Arithmetic
• 6.1 Test-Driving the Enhanced Inventory Application
• 6.2 Variables
• 6.3 Handling the Text
• Changed Event
• 6.4 Memory Concepts
• 6.5 Arithmetic
• 6.6 Using the Debugger: Breakpoints
• 6.7 Internet and Web Resources
• 6.8 Wrap-Up
• 7 Wage Calculator Application
• Introducing Algorithms, Pseudocode and Program Control
• 7.1 Test-Driving the Wage Calculator Application
• 7.2 Algorithms
• 7.3 Pseudocode
• 7.4 Control Structures
• 7.5 If...Then Selection Statement
• 7.6 If...Then...Else Selection Statement
• 7.7 Constructing the Wage Calculator Application
• 7.8 Assignment Operators
• 7.9 Formatting Text
• 7.10 Using the Debugger: The Watch Window
• 7.11 Wrap-Up
• 8 Dental Payment Application
• Introducing Check
• Boxes and Message Dialogs
• 8.1 Test-Driving the Dental Payment Application
• 8.2 Designing the Dental Payment Application
• 8.3 Using CheckBoxes
• 8.4 Using a Dialog to Display a Message
• 8.5 Logical Operators
• 8.6 Designer-Generated Code
• 8.7 Wrap-Up
• 9 Car Payment Calculator Application
• Introducing the Do While...Loop and Do Until...Loop
• Repetition Statements
• 9.1 Test-Driving the Car Payment Calculator Application
• 9.2 Do While...Loop Repeti

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Paul J. Deitel , CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of MIT's Sloan School of Management, where he studied Information Technology. He holds the Java Certified Programmer and Java Certified Developer certifications, and has been designated by Sun Microsystems as a Java Champion. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered Java, C, C++, C# and Visual Basic courses to industry clients, including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Lucent Technologies, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Stratus, Cambridge Technology Partners, Open Environment Corporation, One Wave, Hyperion Software, Adra Systems, Entergy, CableData Systems, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot, Invensys and many more. He has also lectured on Java and C++ for the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. He and his father, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the world's best-selling programming language textbook authors.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel , Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 45 years of academic and industry experience in the computer field. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the MIT and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He has 20 years of college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., with his son, Paul J. Deitel. He and Paul are the co-authors of several dozen books and multimedia packages and they are writing many more. With translations published in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and Turkish, the Deitels' texts have earned international recognition. Dr. Deitel has delivered hundreds of professional seminars to major corporations, academic institutions, government organizations and the military.