Visual Basic Relevant paradigm and problem domains overview

Advantages of Visual Basic: Used to create nice looking graphical programs that don’t require a lot of coding. Allows even users with little programming experience to quickly develop Microsoft Windows applications. Ideal for developing applications that run in Windows.

Example of Usage: Develop programs that can be used as an application to a database system and serve as the user interface that collects user input. It also displays output in a more appealing and useful way than many SQL software versions.

Visual Basic’s Success Brought simplification to Windows application programming. Eliminated the need to write code for Graphical User Interface (GUI) input/output.

Fields of usage: Education Research and Science Medicine Business Commerce Marketing and sales Accounting Law

How Did VB evolve? 1963 math professors John G Kemeny and Thomas E Kurtz developed BASIC. BASIC was easy and cheap to implement and rapidly gained popularity, especially in applications programming.

1975 Microsoft launched a BASIC compiler for the MITS Altair. Also in 1975, the first GUIs were demonstrated. 1980s Apple introduced 2 machines featuring GUIs: Lisa and Macintosh.

Father of Visual Basic (referred to as VB for short): Alan Cooper Alan Cooper wrote a program called Ruby that delivered visual programming to the average programmer or user. The rising popularity of GUIs caused Microsoft to release the first official version of VB in 1991.