Section 1.1. Introduction

1.1. Introduction

Welcome to Visual Basic 2005! We have worked hard to provide you with accurate and complete information regarding this powerful computer programming language which, from this point forward, we shall refer to simply as Visual Basic Visual Basic is appropriate for building substantial information systems. We hope that working with this book will be an informative, challenging and entertaining learning experience for you.

The core of this book emphasizes achieving program clarity through the proven techniques of object-oriented programming (OOP) and event-driven programming. The book presents hundreds of complete, working Visual Basic programs and depicts their inputs and outputs. We call this the live-code approach. All of the book's examples may be downloaded from www.deitel.com/books/vbforprogrammers2/index.html.

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