Research Topics in Computational Science Lecture 02

Today’s Agenda New Survey (Contact Info) Talk about old survey Building Programs in Visual Studio 2010 Programming Basics

Review of Survey Majors Programming/Languages OOP/MVC Databases/SQL Drawing/Art Group Work/Organization

Majors 3 Physics 3 Computer 1 Chem/Bio Eng 1 Business Programming Languages C/C++/C#/Java – 3 have never used 1 – No Experience

OOP/MVC OOP – Most have heard of – In depth knowledge MVC – 6 Have never heard of it – 0 have used it! Database SQL Excel – Everyone Has used! Database – Only 2 have worked with SQL – 4 Never Heard of – 3 Heard of (not used) – 1 Worked with

Drawing 4 - Not Good Drawing 2 - Good on Paper only 2 - Good on Both Design 1 - Not Interested 2 - Not Sure 5 - Interested Group Work 3 - Like 5 - When Needed 0 - Don’t Like

Programming Basics Objects Classes Variables Properties Events

What does Object mean? In plain English what does the word “Object” mean?

Objects & Classes Things we use are Objects Classes are how objects are organized – In English: A class is a group of similar things – In Programming: When we know a bunch of things will be similar, we create classes

Properties Properties are the data that “make up” the object Some properties can be changed

Events Events are the way objects interact with each other The most common event is a mouse click Events are how we connect the user to our program!

Variables We use Variables like in math Variables are the names we give to things Computer Variables can also represent things that are not numbers x = y = x + 2

Variable Types int float double string bool decimal char object

Resources The New Boston Head First C# Programming – Book available at library

Programming Basics I will walk you through the basics of creating a form that creates a message box. Then I will ask you to create a form.

Let’s Play Open Visual Studio C# – Today we will play