1. CSCI 3327 Visual Basic Review: Final Exam
UTPA – Fall 2011
Part of the slides is from Dr. John Abraham’s previous lecture slides. – Xiang Lian

2. Review Textbook Time Place Self-Review Exercises Quick Quiz Exercises
10:15 a.m.-12 p.m., Dec. 16 (Friday)
Place
ENGR (classroom)

3. Review Lecture slides Introduction to Classes and Objects
Control structure
Methods
Arrays
LINQ
Files and Streams
Strings
Databases and LINQ

4. Review Multiple Choice True/False Statements Programming
Write the code
Bonus Question

5. Chapter 3: Introduction to Classes and Objects
Object-oriented design & programming
Classes
The Syntax for a Class
Variables
Methods
Subroutines vs. functions
Properties
Set and Get methods
Events
Relationships between classes and objects

6. Chapter 4: Control Structure (Part I)
The primitive data types
Arithmetic operators & Precedence
+, -, *, /, \, Mod
The components of basic control structures
The syntax of basic sequence, selection, and repetition structures in Visual Basic

7. Chapter 5: Control Structure (Part II)
More control structures
Repetition statements
For … Next, Do … Loop While, Do … Loop Until
Usage of Exit and Continue statements
Selection
Select … Case
Logical operators

8. Chapter 6: Methods Classification and declaration of methods
Subroutines
Functions
ByVal vs. ByRef parameters in methods

9. Chapter 7: Arrays Declaration and usage of arrays
Index/subscript
Length, GetUpperBound()
Initialization and reference to elements of the array
Usage of the For Each … Next statement to iterate through elements in the array

10. Chapter 7: Arrays (cont'd)
Search
Linear search
Binary search
The declaration and usage of rectangular arrays
Index/subscript

11. Chapter 8: Introduction to LINQ and Collections
Write filtering statements using LINQ
The usage of LINQ to query an array
Sort an array using LINQ
Ascending
Descending

12. Chapter 9: Object-Oriented Programming: Classes and Objects
Declaration of classes
Declaration of properties and their methods
Set and Get
Exercises

13. Chapter 11: Files and Streams
Data Hierarchy
Bits  Characters  Fields  Records  File
Create a File
Dim fileWriter As StreamWriter=New StreamWriter(fileName)
Dim fileReader As StreamReader=New StreamReader(fileName)
Write a File
fileWriter.WriteLine(“text”)
Read a File
Dim oneline As String = FileReader.ReadLine()
Close a File
fileWriter.Close()

14. Chapter 12: Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions
Declaration and initialization of a String object
Dim string1 As String = "Hello"
String Property
string1.Length
String Indexer
string1(i)
i is index from 0 to string1.Length-1

15. Chapter 12: Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions (cont'd)
String Methods
string1.Equals(“hello”)
String.Equals(string1, string2)
string1.CompareTo(string2)
If string1 < string2, -1
If string1 > string2, 1
If string1 = string2, 0
string1.StartWith("st")
string1.EndWith("st")

16. Chapter 13:Databases and LINQ
Create a connection between data source and controls
Display the results of the LINQ query
How to update the database via controls

17. Coding the Display Query Results

18. Coding the Display Query Results (cont'd)

19. Good Luck!
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