Hi Visual Basic students,

     Here are the reading we are covering for the first 8 or 9 weeks:

     Hour 1 - the IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
              toolbox, properties window, immediate window, code window,
              form window, etc.
     Hour 2 - Event Driven Programs, naming objects, P M E trio of
              categories of objects (Properties, Methods and Events).
     Hour 3 - Controls and Properties
     Hour 4 - Labels, Buttons and Textboxes
     Hour 5 - Code - the basics of Coding in Visual Basic
     Hour 6 - Message boxes and Input Boxes.  MsgBox (recall MSG)

     Hour 7 - If Statements and Else clauses and ElseIf and End If
              Comparison operators and Logical operators (And, Or, Not)

     Hour 8 - Do While loops
              For Next loops (For i = 1 to 20   ...   Next i)

     Hour 9 - Using Control Arrays

     Hour 10 - ListBox control - page 168
               Control Arrays - page 178

     Hour 11 - Check Box control - page 189
               Scrollbars - page 190
               VB's clock: The Timer Control - page 192

     Hour 13 - Page 218 Coding Subroutines
               Page 220 Coding Functions
               Page 223 Coding Arguments
               Page 224 ByRef and ByVal arguments (how to pass an argument).

     Hour 14 - String Functions ( Page 231 Left(), Right(), Mid(), Len(),
                                                        UCase(), LCase()  )
     Hour 16 - Printing - The Print Method pages 275-279

     Hour 17 - Menus and Visual Basic

     Hour 18 - Image control
               PictureBox control