COMPUTER PROGRAMMING 3
VB .NET One - Getting Started
1. Getting started with VB.NET
2. Visual Basic .NET Forms
3. Add Controls using the Toolbox
4. Adding a Textbox to the Form
5. Visual Basic .NET and Properties
6. The Text Property
7. Adding a splash of colour
8. Saving your work
9. Create a New Project
VB .NET Two - Write your first .NET
code
1. What is a Variable?
2. Add a button to your VB Net Form
3. Writing your first VB code
4. String Variables in VB
5. How to get at Text in a textbox
6. More about VB .NET variables
7. Using variables in your VB code
8. A VB NET Calculator Project
9. The code for the calculator
10. The Message Box in VB .NET
VB .NET Three - Conditional Logic
1. VB Net If Statements
2. Select Case Statements
3. Add a Combo Box to a VB .NET form
4. The Conditional Operators in VB
5. Section Three Exercises
VB .NET Four- Loops
1. An Introduction to Loops in VB .NET
2. VB For Loops
3. VB Do Loops
4. A Times Table Programme
5. The Code for the Time Table Programme
6. The Basic Math Symbols in VB .NET
VB .NET Five - Adding menus to Forms
1. Add a menu to a VB .NET Form
2. How to add VB code to a Menu
3. How to add a Sub Menu to your Form
4. How to add Shortcuts to your Menu Items
5. A VB .NET menu Project
6. The Open File Dialogue Box
7. Filter files with the Open File Dialogue
Box
8. Selecting Files
9. The Save File Dialogue Box
10. Cut, Copy, Paste and Undo menus
11. How to Show and Hide Controls
12. Insert Images into a Picture Box
13. Add a Checkbox to a VB .NET form
14. Writing code for Checkboxes
15. Add Option Buttons to a VB .NET form
VB .NET Six - Debugging your code
1. Error Handling and Debugging in
VB .NET
2. VB Design Time Errors
3. VB RunTime Errors
4. Try ... Catch in VB .NET
5. Logic Errors
6.Breakpoints and Debugging tools
VB .NET Seven - Mastering Arrays
1. What is an Array?
2. VB Arrays and the Index Number
3. Assigning Values to a VB Array
4. Arrays where boundaries are not known
VB .NET Eight - String Manipulation
1. The VB String Variable Type
2. How to use the Trim Method in VB
3. The difference between Char and Chars()
4. How to use the VB InStr Method
5. How to use the Substring Method in VB
6. Equals, Replace and Insert Methods
7. How to use Split and Join in VB .NET
VB .NET Nine - Working with Text Files
1. What is a Text File?
2. How to Open a Text File in VB .NET
3. How to Read a Text File Line by Line
4. How to Write to a Text File in VB .NET
5. Appending Text to a File in VB .NET
6. How to Copy a File in VB
7. How to Move a File
8. How to Delete a File
VB .NET Ten - Functions and Subs
1. An Introduction to VB Functions and
Subs
2. How to Create your own Subs in VB .NET
3. Using Parameters in your Subs
4. ByVal and ByRef in VB .NET
5. How to Create a Function in VB.NET
6. How to use Parameters with Functions
7. Standard Modules - Part One
8. Standard Modules - Part Two 7. How to Move through the Database
VB .NET Eleven - Events 8. Add, Update and Delete Records
1. The VB Click Event 9. Add a New Record using VB .NET
2. The VB MouseDown Event 10. Delete a Record using VB .NET
3. The KeyDown Event in VB Net VB .NET Fourteen - VB NET and Forms
4. The VB Form Load Event 1. Anchor and Dock Controls on a VB Form
VB .NET Twelve - Classes and Objects 2. Add a Toolbar to a VB Form
1. An Introduction to VB Classes and 3. Creating Multiple Forms in VB .NET
Objects 4. Modal and Non Modal VB Forms
2. Create your own Classes in VB .NET 5. Getting at Values on Other Forms
3. How to Create Methods in your VB
Classes PETA: PORTFOLIO
4. More about Creating Methods DLPS: 5
5. Create Properties in your VB Classes ACTIVITIES: 25
6. How to Use your New Property
VB .NET Thirteen - VB .NET and CRITERIAS:
Databases Creativity: 30%
1. VB NET and Databases Content: 30%
2. The Database Wizard in VB NET Origin: 20%
3. Write your own VB .NET database code Pass Promptly: 20%
4. Learn about DataSets and Data Adaptors
5. Display the Data in the DataSet Total 100%
6. Navigate a Database with VB .NET

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING 4
Section One - An Introduction to PHP
1. What is PHP and Why do I need it?
2. What you need to get started
3. Installing and testing Wampserver
Section Two - Getting Started With
Variables
1. What is a Variable?
2. Putting text into variables
3. PHP Variables - some practice
4. More variable practice
5. Joining direct text and variable data
6. Adding up in PHP
7. Subtraction
8. Multiplication
9. Division
10. Floating point numbers in PHP
Section Three - Conditional Logic
1. PHP If Statements
2. Using If Statements
3. if ... else
4. if ... else if
5. Comparison Operators in PHP
6. NOT Equal To
7. Less Than and Greater Than
8. What these mean: <=, >=
9. The PHP Switch Statement
10. PHP Logical Operators
11. Boolean Values
12. Operator Precedence - a List
Section Four - Working with HTML
Forms in PHP
1. The HTML Form
2. The Method Attribute
3. The Post Attribute
4. The Action Attribute
5. The Submit button
6. Getting values from a Text Box
7. Check for Submit button clicks
8. More on the ACTION attribute
9. Keep data the user entered
10. PHP and Radio Buttons
11. PHP and Checkboxes
Section Five - PHP Programming
Loops
1. PHP For Loops
2. A Times Table Programme
3. The Code for the PHP Times Table
4. PHP While Loops
5. PHP Do ... While loops
6. The break statement
Section Six - PHP Arrays
1. What is an Array?
2. Setting up an Array in PHP
3. Getting at the values stored in Arrays
4. Arrays - Using Text as Keys
5. Arrays and PHP For Each Loops
6. Sorting PHP Array values
7. Random Keys from an Array
8. The count function
9. Some PHP Array Scripts
Section Seven - String Manipulation
in PHP
1. Changing Case
2. Trimming White Space in PHP
3. Shuffle characters
4. Find string positions with the PHP
strpos function
5. Splitting a line of text
6. Joining text into a single line
7. PHP and Escaping
8. PHP String function list
Section Eight - PHP Functions
1. An Introduction to PHP Functions
2. PHP Variable scope and functions
3. Functions and Arguments
4. A Function to check for blank text
boxes
5. Getting values out of functions
6. By Ref, By Val
7. PHP Server Variables
8. HTTP header() Function
9. The INCLUDE( ) Function
Section Nine - PHP Security Issues
1. PHP Security Issues And Form
Elements
2. The PHP htmlspecialchars( ) function
3. PHP strip_tags( ) function
Section Ten - Dealing With Files In
PHP
1. Working With Files In PHP
2. Opening a file with the PHP readfile()
function
3. Opening a file with fopen( ) in PHP Walkthrough One - PHP User
4. Options for PHP fopen( ) Authentication
5. Writing to files in PHP 1. PHP User Authentication -
6. Working with CSV files in PHP Introduction
7. Read a text file into an PHP array 2. The login database
8. File Locations 3. PHP - Encrypting Passwords
Section Eleven - Date and Time 4. The PHP Login script
Functions in PHP 5. Logging in and Logging Out
1. The PHP date() function Walkthrough Two - Build your own
2. Using PHP the date() function PHP Survey/Poll Application
3. The PHP getdate() Function 1. PHP Survey App - the database
Section Twelve - PHP and MySQL 2.How the PHP Survey works
1. PHP and MySQL 3. Setting a question for the Survey
2. Create a database with phpMyAdmin 4. The PHP Code for the Survey
3. Setting up fields in phpMyAdmin 5. Viewing the Survey results
tables 6.Adding a new Survey question
4. Add records to a MySQL Table
Section Thirteen - Manipulate a
MySQL Database
1. MySQL databases and PHP code PETA: TRAVELOUGE
DLPS: 5
2. Read records from a MySQL
ACTIVITIES: 25
database
3. Adding records to a MySQL database CRITERIAS:
4. Import Database into phpMyAdmin Creativity: 30%
5. PHP Prepared Statements Content: 30%
6. Insert, Update, Delete with PHP Origin: 20%
Prepared Statements Pass Promptly: 20%

Total 100%

Computer Programming Grading Rubric

Trait Exceptional Acceptable Amateur Unsatisfactory
Specifications The program works The program The program The program is producing
and meets all of works and produces correct incorrect results.
the specifications. produces the results but does
correct results not display them
and displays correctly.
them correctly. It
also meets most
of the other
specifications.

Readability The code is The code is The code is The code is poorly
exceptionally well fairly easy to readable only by organized and very difficult
organized and very read. someone who to read.
easy to follow. knows what it is
supposed to be
doing.

Reusability The code could be Most of the code Some parts of The code is not organized
reused as a whole could be reused the code could for reusability.
or each routine in other be reused in
could be reused. programs. other programs.

Documentation The documentation The The The documentation is

is well written and documentation documentation simply comments
clearly explains consists of is simply embedded in the code and
what the code is embedded comments does not help the reader
accomplishing and comment and embedded in the understand the code.
how. some simple code with some
header simple header
documentation comments
that is somewhat
useful in
understanding
the code

Delivery The program was The program The code was The code was more than 2
delivered on time. was delivered within 2 weeks weeks overdue.
within a week of of the due date.
the due date.

Efficiency The code is The code is The code is The code is huge and
extremely efficient fairly efficient brute force and appears to be patched
without sacrificing without unnecessarily together.
readability and sacrificing long.
understanding. readability and
understanding.

Grading Rubrics
This assignment is to write an application using the VB/PHP programming language.