Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 06:49 a.m.
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@cns.uni.edu>
     To: 810-030-01@uni.edu
Subject: Page 257, Project 2 due on Friday...

Hi Visual Basic students,

Page 257, Project 2, has you create a sequential file named CustSales.txt.

          CustSales.txt contains Customer Names and Sales Amounts.

          Table 6-9: Sales for Customers shows you some sample data to
          use.  Be sure to use YOUR NAME instead of the name of one
          of the customers.  You might want to substitute your name
          for Ann Abernathy, so you have the highest sales of all.

    Project comes from the chapter Working With Arrays in Visual Basic.
                                   -----------------------------------

    You have experience with Control Arrays, if you recall the menus
    assignment, and the dancing U N I application, so Arrays will
    not be that new, as you do the chapter 6 Project.

    Also new will be reading from input files, opening files.
    Pages 172-174 from chapter 5 will be covered in class today.
    You will read the input data from the file CustSales.txt and
    store it in two arrays.

    The array data will be basically one array containing the
    customer names, and another array containing the customer sales
    amounts.

    One of the buttons on your application will display the customer
    name and the sales amount in a list box.  You already have
    experience with the list box.

    The logic of determining the highest sale and the lowest sale
    will be discussed in class today too.

    This program will be due on Friday.  I will give lots of hints
    and examples for it today in class.

    Mark