Instructor Contact Information

Title of Course: Visual Basic Programming (CISC 186)
Fully Online

Joaquín N Vélez (Kino)

City College
Instructor's email address: jvelez@sdccd.edu

Textbook and Course Material Requirements

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Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Third Edition

Diane Zak

Thomson

ISBN 1-4188-3674-5

Purchase Textbooks Online at the SDCCD Online Bookstore

Hardware and Software Requirements

Hardware and Software:
To successfully complete this online course, you will be required to meet the minimum hardware and software requirements. View Hardware and Software Requirements. You will also need Microsoft Visual Basic.Net version 2005 or Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. The latter can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/express/2005

Internet Browser:
You must use a supported Internet browser in order to successfully work in WebCT, the online course management system for this course. To see a list of supported Internet browsers, click here.

Course Description

This course is an introduction to programming using Visual Basic 2005. The course covers the fundamentals of event oriented programming in a Windows environment.

Course Objectives

Students will explore how to write and use Visual Basic applications that they might find in a real world setting. Coverage includes the basic issues of designing programming applications, including control structures, procedures, arrays, file access, and object-oriented programming and design..

Specific topic coverage includes:

 An Introduction to Visual Basic 2005  Designing Applications  Using Variables and Constants  The Selection Structure  More on the Selection Structure  The Repetition Structure

 Sub and Function Procedures  Manipulating Strings  Arrays  Structures and Sequential Access Files  Classes and Objects  Using ADO.NET 2.0

Course Specific Information

This is computer language course. It is presumed that you know the basics of how to use a computer, open , close maximize ,minimized windows, save a file, open saved files, rename files, delete files, drag and drop, stretch, resize, shrink/expand a tree view and other basic computer related skills.

Attendance is required in all courses. In this course you are required to log in to the course 2 times per week. Logging in to the course at least twice a week will help you maintain current with course issues, potential changes, and updated information relevant to the weekly units.

WebCT Vista allows the faculty to monitor student’s activities and course visits to determine student’s progress. This means that your instructors will know if you visited the course contents, downloaded the course materials and/or spent time online at particular sections of the course. We will also know the number of time you logged in and how long you were online. This information will assist us to determine attendance and progress requirements. Although your instructors believe that it is your responsibility to drop from this course, we reserve the right to drop you from the course based on the District’s attendance policies.

Application and Registration Information

REGISTRATION DIRECTIONS:

1. Complete Online Application (for new SDCCD students). Go to Student Web Services
2. Receive registration appointment and instructions by email or mail.
3. Register online at the Reg-e, our online registration system
4. Make sure that you pay your tuition so that you don't lose your registration!
   Tuition and Fees Information.
5. Order textbooks online. Visit our online bookstore.

6. After completion of registration on Reg-e, and several days prior to the start of the semester, you will receive an email with course login instructions. If you don't receive an email please go to http://www.sdccdonline.net and login on the first day of class as follows:
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Type your WebCT ID = 7-digit College Student Identification (CSID) number
Type your Password =  mmddyyyy (birthdate with no hyphens, slashes, or spaces)
For example:  1010101 (CSID number used at registration)
                          06231980 (password for birthdate June 23, 1980) 

7. If this course is closed, please login to Reg-e to be placed on a waitlist. If the waitlist is full, you will not be able to add your name to the waitlist.

You will not be able to login to your online course until the first day of the semester!!!
You must login to your online course on the first day of the session to avoid your enrollment being dropped. Follow the login instructions at http://www.sdccdonline.net/login