Using This Book for a Short or Condensed Course

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This book provides more than enough material for a complete semester course. The topics must be trimmed for courses lasting considerably less than a full semester. The following syllabus provides one possible way to present an abbreviated introduction to programming.

1	An Introduction to Computers and Visual Basic 2005
	1.2 Using Windows
	1.3 Files and Folders
3	Fundamentals of Programming in Visual Basic
	3.1 Visual Basic Controls
	3.2 Visual Basic Events
	3.3 Numbers
	3.4 Strings
	3.5 Input and Output
4	Procedures
	4.1 Sub Procedures, Part I
	4.2 Sub Procedures, Part II
	4.3 Functions
5	Decisions
	5.1 Relational and Logical Operators
	5.2 If Blocks
	5.3 Select Case Blocks
6	Repetition
	6.1 Do Loops
	6.2 Processing Lists of Data with Do Loops
	6.3 For... Next Loops
7	Arrays
	7.1 Creating and Accessing Arrays
	7.2 Using Arrays (Omit Merging Two Ordered Arrays)
	7.3 Some Additional Types of Arrays (Omit Control Arrays)
9	Additional Controls and Objects
	9.1 List Boxes, Combo Boxes, and the File-Opening Control
	9.2 Seven Elementary Controls