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POS 408 Week 1 Individual Assignment Simple Visual Basic® Programe

Design, implement, test, and debug a simple Visual Basic® program.

Requirements

Create a VB form inside of Visual Studio. The form needs the following components and functionality:

Two text boxes. Limit the boxes to accept only 15 characters. Rename the text boxes to something meaningful (like, 'txtFirstName')

Two labels to the left of the text boxes that prompts the user to enter a first and last name. Rename the labels.

Two buttons. One to clear the contents of the text boxes, and one to exit the application. Include hot keys on the buttons.

Rename the buttons to reflect their purpose ( from 'button1' to something like 'btnClear')

Name the form, "Week 1" and have that label show on the title bar of the form (instead of the default 'form1')

Rename the form to 'frmweek1'

Include documentation at the top of the code in the form which includes your name and a short description of the assignment

Include anything else you would like to try on the form. Play around and get familiar with the toolbox. Change colors of objects or whatever. Experiment around.

Include a block at the top of the code that contains your information: programmer, date, and information about the application

Zip the files of the project together.

Submit the zipped file


POS 408 Week 1 DQS

DQ 1

Reflect on the information from an article you find on the Internet or elsewhere that relates to the topic. Select ONE article and write your reactions, thoughts, and experiences related to the article. As long as the article is somewhat related to our class topics, or to technology generally, it will be fine.

Please do not simply just recap or recite what you read. As part of your response please include the following:

• How does the information apply?
• How or why is the information meaningful/useful?
• Why do you agree or disagree?

Other requirements: 250-400 words, formal writing, and do not use an attachment. Include the referencefor the article. Choose an article other than an article listed on the Course Materials web page for each week. Those articles will be discussed in the other discussion questions.


DQ 2

Design, implement, test, and debug a simple Visual Basic® program.
Requirements

• The GUI program will have a button that displays the word Hello somewhere on the form, or in an object on the form, like a label.
• Enhance the display by making the word change color, move, or change to another language (such as Hola) when the user clicks on a button or hovers the mouse over the object.

Write the code for the program and test the results.
Zip the files of the project together and attach to your reply post to this DQ.


DQ 3

Find a resource on the Internet that assists programmers with VB.net. Review the site and give us the URL.
Is this site worth using? Does the site cater to beginners or advanced programmers? Would you recommend this site to your fellow students to help them with their VB programming? Why? Why would you use, or why would you not use this site?




POS 408 Week 2 Individual Assignment Home Utility Auditing Program


Design, implement, test, and debug a Visual Basic® program to create a simple home utility auditing program.

The user should be able to do the following:

Enter the cost per kilowatt-hour.
Select a home appliance from a list of home appliances.
Enter the power needed in kilowatts (kW) for the selected appliance.
Enter the number of hours used per day for the selected appliance.

The program should do the following:

Validate that the data entered has the correct format and is within a reasonable range.
Calculate and display the cost for operating a home appliance as soon as the data is entered.

Required programming components

Use a Try/Catch
Use at least one loop
Use a decision structure (if, or case)
Create a design flow chart.

Use properly labeled and named text boxes, labels, buttons and forms (see the text for proper naming conventions). Include an exit button. Make sure the buttons work.
Be generous with internal documentation. Should have as many lines of documentation as you do code.

Design a GUI for the program that will be intuitive for a novice user.

Write the code for the program and test the results.

Zip the files of the project together.
Post the zipped project folder and flow chart as separate posts in the assignment tab. Name the flow chart document, ‘flow chart’.

Submit the zipped file.


POS 408 Week 2 DQS

DQ 1

Reflect on the information from an article you find on the Internet or elsewhere that relates to the topic. Select ONE article and write your reactions, thoughts, and experiences related to the article. As long as the article is somewhat related to our class topics, or to technology generally, it will be fine.

Please do not simply just recap or recite what you read. As part of your response please include the following:

• How does the information apply?
• How or why is the information meaningful/useful?
• Why do you agree or disagree?

Other requirements: 250-400 words, formal writing, and do not use an attachment. Include the referencefor the article. Choose an article other than an article listed on the Course Materials web page for each week. Those articles will be discussed in the other discussion questions.


DQ 2

For this DQ you will create two forms. 

Your application will begin with a 'splash' screen (see the template in VS or create your own form) that contains information about your application.

After 10 seconds, or when the user clicks a 'Proceed' button, display a second form. I do not care what is on the second form. Show a countdown timer on the splash screen. (use the timer control)

Make sure your application works in the Virtual VS site.

Zip the application folder and post it under this thread.

If you cannot figure this out, then look at the other student's work and see how they did it. I will post a simple solution near the end of the week. If you spend more than an hour or so on this you may be making it harder than
it is. I am able to accomplish this with only a few lines of code.


DQ 3

Write a 200- to 300-word short-answer response to the following:
In the context of Visual Basic® programming, what is an event? 

Give three examples of events and elaborate on when these events would/should be used.




POS 408 Week 3 Individual Assignment Enhanced Home Utility Auditing Program

Design, implement, test, and debug a Visual Basic® program to create an enhanced home utility auditing program based on Week Two.

The user should be able to do the following:

Enter the cost per kilowatt-hour.
Select from a list of home appliances which includes a washer, among other appliances.
Enter the power needed in kilowatts (kW) for the selected appliance.
Enter the number of hours used per day for the selected appliance.
If the washer is selected, enter both the number of gallons of water used by the washer per hour and the cost per gallon. (If another appliance is used, have the user enter all the criteria needed to calculate usage and cost.)

The program should do the following:

Validate that the data entered has the correct format, and is within a reasonable range.
Calculate and display the cost for operating a home appliance as soon as the data is entered.
Create a listing area to display each of the following for each appliance entered:

Home appliance
Number of hours per day
Cost
Display and update the total cost of all appliances, as soon as a new entry is added to the listing area.

Required programming components
Include all functionality and programming requirements from the previous weeks
Format all floating point numbers to two decimal places and align all columns in lists.
Input from the user should not allow invalid amounts (letters, blanks, amounts too high or too low)
Use other VB objects to make a professional looking form. Use as little space as possible (do not use the entire screen). Think about how this could be made easier for the user.
Use fonts and colors schemes that look professional
Create a flow chart.
Be generous with internal documentation

Write the code for the program and test the results.

Zip the files of the project together.
Post the zipped project folder and flow chart as separate posts in the assignment tab. Name the flow chart document, ‘flow chart’.

Submit the zipped file.


POS 408 Week 3 DQS

DQ 1

Reflect on the information from an article you find on the Internet or elsewhere that relates to the topic. Select ONE article and write your reactions, thoughts, and experiences related to the article. As long as the article is somewhat related to our class topics, or to technology generally, it will be fine.

Please do not simply just recap or recite what you read. As part of your response please include the following:

• How does the information apply?
• How or why is the information meaningful/useful?
• Why do you agree or disagree?

Other requirements: 250-400 words, formal writing, and do not use an attachment. Include the referencefor the article. Choose an article other than an article listed on the Course Materials web page for each week. Those articles will be discussed in the other discussion questions


DQ 2

Programming DQ.

Create a math tutor program. Randomly create addition, multiplication, subtraction and division questions like:

Addition
14
11
---


Have the user enter an answer. Let them know if they answered the question correctly.
Create random numbers for the questions. 
You can group the questions in groups of ten or so, and give them a score like, "You got 8 out of 10 Correct!!"
You can tell the program to do just addition, or a combination of question types.
There is no right or wrong way to do this.
I hope you have fun with this and watch how others create their application. 

Don't feel like you need to spend a lot of time on this. If you make an attempt you will get the DQ points.

This can be a useful application for your kids or grandkids.


DQ 3

Create a flow chart.

You have a robot standing and facing a set of stairs. We do not know how many steps it will take for the robot to get to the stairs and we do not know how many stairs there are. You need to write a flowchart to get the robot to the top of the stairs.

Your robot can do the following: 1. take a step forward 2. take a stair-step up 3. has an electric eye to know whether the next step is a stair or not.

If your robot takes a stair-step and there is no stair as the next step, your robot will fall down.


See the example flowchart in the Material's for week three.

Create your flowchart in Word drawing objects using the template I attached so we are all on the same platform and can see each other's flowcharts.

Attach your Word document in reply to this thread.



POS 408 Week 4 Individual ASSIGNMENT Data Structures in a Visual Basic® Program

Design, implement, test, and debug a Visual Basic® program to create an enhanced home utility auditing program based on Week Three.

The user should be able to do the following:

Export the data in the listing area to an external text file.
Change to the default power ratings of a selected appliance.

The program should do the following:

Use an array or structure.
Display the usage list on a separate form (create a second form)
Read the default power rating for appliances from an external text file.

Other required programming components
Include all functionality and programming requirements from the previous weeks
Format all floating point numbers to two decimal places and align all columns in lists.
Input from the user should not allow invalid amounts (letters, blanks, amounts too high or too low)
Use other VB objects to make a professional looking form. Use as little space as possible (do not use the entire screen). Think about how this could be made easier for the user.
Use fonts and colors schemes that look professional
Create a flow chart.
Be generous with internal documentation

Write the code for the program and test the results.

Zip the files of the project together.
Post the zipped project folder and flow chart as separate posts in the assignment tab. Name the flow chart document, ‘flow chart’.

Submit the zipped file.


POS 408 Week 4 DQS

DQ 1

Every student must respond to every discussion question (DQ) unless otherwise instructed.

Use an article other than our textbook or the articles found in the suggested readings for this class.

Reflect on the information from an article you find on the Internet or elsewhere that relates to the topic. Select ONE article and write your reactions, thoughts, and experiences related to the article. As long as the article is somewhat related to our class topics, or to technology generally, it will be fine.

Please do not simply just recap or recite what you read. As part of your response please include the following:

• How does the information apply?

• How or why is the information meaningful/useful?
• Why do you agree or disagree?

Other requirements: 250-400 words, formal writing, and do not use an attachment. Include the referencefor the article. Choose an article other than an article listed on the Course Materials web page for each week. Those articles will be discussed in the other discussion questions.


DQ 2

For this week create a calculator. Have it do the basic functions, add, subtract, multiply and divide. Have a button for each of the 10 digits and an equal (=) button. Make it user friendly. Remember to spend most of your time on the individual and team projects. Just an effort on this DQ will get earn your DQ points.


DQ 3

How can you perform table lookup on an array? Your explanation should include one or two practical computing example(s) of table lookup on an array. Are there any alternatives to using an array in your example?


POS 408 Week 5 Learning Team Final Project Database Reading and Writing

Complete the Visual Basic® program.
Add a feature in the program to read from and write to the database designed in the previous week.
Use at least one Class outside of the base Class
Other required programming components
Use other VB objects to make a professional looking form. Use as little space as possible (do not use the entire screen). Think about how this could be made easier for the user.
Use fonts and colors schemes that look professional
Create a flow chart.
Be generous with internal documentation


POS 408 Week 5 DQ

DQ 1

Every student must respond to every discussion question (DQ).

Use an article other than our textbook or the articles found in the suggested readings for this class.

Reflect on the information from an article you find on the Internet or elsewhere that relates to the topic. Select ONE article and write your reactions, thoughts, and experiences related to the article. As long as the article is somewhat related to our class topics, or to technology generally, it will be fine.

Please do not simply just recap or recite what you read. As part of your response please include the following:

• How does the information apply?
• How or why is the information meaningful/useful?
• Why do you agree or disagree?

Other requirements: 250-400 words, formal writing, and do not use an attachment. Include the referencefor the article. Choose an article other than an article listed on the Course Materials web p

DQ 2

Since an important part of programming in a GUI environment is screen design, for this week's programming DQ I want you to design a form for customer information. Include first and last name, address information, credit card, phone numbers, Include information like whether or not this customer is currently active (checkbox) or anything else you would need to know about your customer. Make sure the tab order makes sense (when the user presses tab the cursor goes to the next logical place.

Make the form look professional and be sure that labels are clear, and that the tab stops are in the order the user would expect.

At the end of the week we can all vote on who had the best design. 

Post a screen-shot (or shots if you use tabs or more than one form) of your form to make viewing your form easier for everyone. You can post your code too if you want

For this DQ you become more of an artist than a programmer.


DQ 3

Write a 200- to 300-word short-answer response to the following:

• When displaying the contents of a table in a DataGridView control, what would you do to limit the columns to a subset to just those that are required? Use an example to illustrate your point.


DQ 4

Write a 200- to 300-word short-answer response to the following:

• Using code fragments, what are similarities and differences between LINQ and SQL? Describe a programming task where both are used.