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Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
C H AP T E R 1 I Am Not a Control Freak! (Control Structures) . . . . . . . . . 1
C H AP T E R 2 First You Need to Plan the Party (Problem-Solving Process) . . 17
C H AP T E R 3 I Need a Tour Guide (Introduction to Visual Basic 2012) . . . . 35
C H AP T E R 4 Do-It-Yourself Designing (Designing Interfaces) . . . . . . . . 63
C H AP T E R 5 The Secret Code (Assignment Statements) . . . . . . . . . . 87
C H AP T E R 6 Where Can I Store This? (Variables and Constants) . . . . . . 107
C H AP T E R 7 What’s Wrong With It? (Syntax, Logic, and Run Time Errors) . . 131
C H AP T E R 8 Decisions, Decisions, Decisions (Selection Structure) . . . . . 151
C H AP T E R 9 Time to Leave the Nest (Nested Selection Structures) . . . . . 185
C H AP T E R 1 0 So Many Paths…So Little Time (Multiple-Alternative
Selection Structures) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
C H AP T E R 1 1 Testing, Testing…1, 2, 3 (Selecting Test Data) . . . . . . . . 237
C H AP T E R 1 2 How Long Can This Go On? (Pretest Loops) . . . . . . . . . . 261
C H AP T E R 1 3 Do It, Then Ask Permission (Posttest Loops) . . . . . . . . . 293
C H AP T E R 1 4 Let Me Count the Ways (Counter-Controlled Loops) . . . . . . 305
C H AP T E R 1 5 I’m on the Inside; You’re on the Outside (Nested Loops) . . . . 329
C H AP T E R 1 6 I Hear You Are Breaking Up (Sub Procedures) . . . . . . . . . 353
C H AP T E R 1 7 Talk to Me (Function Procedures) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
C H AP T E R 1 8 A Ray of Sunshine (One-Dimensional Arrays) . . . . . . . . . 403
C H AP T E R 1 9 Parallel and Dynamic Universes (More on
One-Dimensional Arrays) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
C H AP T E R 2 0 Table Tennis, Anyone? (Two-Dimensional Arrays) . . . . . . . 455
C H AP T E R 2 1 Building Your Own Structure (Structures) . . . . . . . . . . . 479

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C H AP T E R 2 2 I’m Saving for the Future (Sequential Access Files) . . . . . . 497

C H AP T E R 2 3 The String Section (String Manipulation) . . . . . . . . . . . 515
C H AP T E R 2 4 I’m Suffering from Information Overload (Access Databases) . . 539
C H AP T E R 2 5 The Missing “LINQ” (Querying a Database) . . . . . . . . . . 569
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C H AP T E R 2 6 I Love This Class (Creating a Class) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
C H AP T E R 2 7 Getting “Web-ified” (Web Applications) . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
A PP E N D I X A Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
A PP E N D I X B Answers to Mini-Quizzes and TRY THIS Exercises . . . . . . Online
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

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Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
C H AP T E R 1 I Am Not a Control Freak! (Control Structures) . . . . . . . . 1
Control Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The Sequence Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The Selection Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Repetition Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

C H AP T E R 2 First You Need to Plan the Party (Problem-Solving Process) . . 17

How Do Programmers Solve Problems? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Step 1—Analyze the Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Step 2—Plan the Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Step 3—Desk-Check the Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

C H AP T E R 3 I Need a Tour Guide (Introduction to Visual Basic 2012) . . . . 35

Ok, the Algorithm Is Correct. What’s Next? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Creating a Visual Basic Windows Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
So Many Windows! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Creating the User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Save, Save, Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Whose Property Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using the FORMAT Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Lock Them Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Ok, Let’s See the Interface in Action! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Closing the Current Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Opening an Existing Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Exiting Visual Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

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C H AP T E R 4 Do-It-Yourself Designing (Designing Interfaces) . . . . . . . . 63

Delegating the Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Making the Interface More User-Friendly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Do What I Tell You to Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
The Me.Close() Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
vi Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

C H AP T E R 5 The Secret Code (Assignment Statements) . . . . . . . . . . 87

The Fun Starts Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
The Val Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Who’s in Charge of This Operation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Your Assignment, if You Choose to Accept It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

C H AP T E R 6 Where Can I Store This? (Variables and Constants) . . . . . . . 107

Using Shoe Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
So, What’s Your Type? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Let’s Play the Name Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
You’ll Need a Reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
How Many Variables Should I Use? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
The TryParse Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Check, Please…I’m Ready to Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Using Constants to Keep Things…Well, the Same . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Dressing Up the Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

C H AP T E R 7 What’s Wrong With It? (Syntax, Logic, and Run Time Errors) . . . 131
There’s a Bug in My Soup! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Finding Syntax Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Locating Logic Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
I’ve Reached My Breaking Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Run Time Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

C H AP T E R 8 Decisions, Decisions, Decisions (Selection Structure) . . . . . 151

Someone Might Need to Make a Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
The If…Then…Else Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Stop That Runner! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

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 Are We in the Black or in the Red? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
You Deserve a Bonus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Examining Another Problem Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Hey, That’s Not the Way I Would Have Done It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 vii
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

C H AP T E R 9 Time to Leave the Nest (Nested Selection Structures) . . . 185

Nested Selection Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
10-4, Over and Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
How Much Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
That’s Way Too Logical for Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Summary of Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

C H AP T E R 1 0 So Many Paths…So Little Time (Multiple-Alternative

Selection Structures) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Which Way Should I Go? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
The Fitness Spa Health Club Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Don’t Be So Sensitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
What’s the Next Case on the Docket? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Using Select Case in the Fitness Spa Health Club Application . . . . . . . . . . 222
Specifying a Range of Values in a Case Clause’s ExpressionList . . . . . . . . . . 223
Coding the ABC Corporation Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

C H AP T E R 1 1 Testing, Testing…1, 2, 3 (Selecting Test Data) . . . . . . 237

Will Your Application Pass the Test? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
The Coffee Palace–Version 1 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
The Coffee Palace–Version 2 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Stop! This Is a Restricted Area! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
The Shady Hollow Hotel Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
The CD Shop Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
The Tiger Hotel Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
I Need to Tell You Something . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Just When You Thought It Was Safe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

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C H AP T E R 1 2 How Long Can This Go On? (Pretest Loops) . . . . . . . . . . 261

Over and Over Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Do I Need a Loop? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
The Do…Loop Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Counter Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
viii Cheerleader Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
My Dream Car Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
The Sales Express Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
The InputBox Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Can I Abbreviate That Assignment Statement? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

C H AP T E R 1 3 Do It, Then Ask Permission (Posttest Loops) . . . . . . . . . . 293

Testing After the Fact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
More on the Do…Loop Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Pseudocode and Flowchart Containing a Posttest Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
The Bouncing Robot Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Key Term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

C H AP T E R 1 4 Let Me Count the Ways (Counter-Controlled Loops) . . . . . . . 305

When Will It Stop? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Spaceship–Version 1 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Spaceship–Version 2 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Hey, Turn That Noise Down! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
The Monthly Payment Calculator Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
The Financial.Pmt Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
But They Said There Were No Strings Attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

C H AP T E R 1 5 I’m on the Inside; You’re on the Outside (Nested Loops) . . . . . 329

One Loop Within Another Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
What Time Is It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
What Do I Owe Each Month? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
But I Want to Do It a Different Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

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C H AP T E R 1 6 I Hear You Are Breaking Up (Sub Procedures) . . . . . . . 353
What’s the Proper Procedure? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
The Weekly Pay Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Send Me Something . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Just Give Me Its Value, Please . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Where Do You Live? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 ix
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

C H AP T E R 1 7 Talk to Me (Function Procedures) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

What’s the Answer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Price Calculator Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Revisiting the Concert Tickets Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Which Way Is Better? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

C H AP T E R 1 8 A Ray of Sunshine (One-Dimensional Arrays) . . . . . . . . 403

Let’s Join the Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
You Are Just So One-Dimensional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Airlines Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Modified Airlines Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Salary Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
States Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

C H AP T E R 1 9 Parallel and Dynamic Universes (More on

One-Dimensional Arrays) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
We Share the Same Subscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
West Coast Emporium Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
Will You Share That with Me? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
But I Don’t Know How Many There Are . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

C H AP T E R 2 0 Table Tennis, Anyone? (Two-Dimensional Arrays) . . . . . . 455

Let’s Table That Idea for Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
Revisiting the West Coast Emporium Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
The GetUpperBound Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
Calendar Sales Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Medical Bills Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
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Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

C H AP T E R 2 1 Building Your Own Structure (Structures) . . . . . . . . . . . 479

x Putting the Pieces Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
Bonnette Pool & Spa Depot Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
Revisiting the West Coast Emporium Application…Again! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

C H AP T E R 2 2 I’m Saving for the Future (Sequential Access Files) . . . . . . . 497

Sequential Access Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Write Those Lines of Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Now Read Those Lines of Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

C H AP T E R 2 3 The String Section (String Manipulation) . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Working with Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
How Many Characters Are There? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
I Need to Fit This in Somewhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Where Does It Begin? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
I Just Want a Part of It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
The Rearrange Name Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
Throw Away Those Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
I Like This Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

C H AP T E R 2 4 I’m Suffering from Information Overload (Access Databases) . . . 539

Keeping Good Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
Connecting…Connecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
What Fields and Records? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
It’s a Binding Contract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
Let the Computer Do It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
DataGridView Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
How Does Visual Basic Do It? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554
Thank You for Catching My Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
The Copy to Output Directory Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
I’ll Use My Own Controls, Thank You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
Coding the Next Record and Previous Record Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
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C H AP T E R 2 5 The Missing “LINQ” (Querying a Database) . . . . . . . . . 569
Asking Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570
The Red Dragon Games Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572
One for All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580 xi
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

C H AP T E R 2 6 I Love This Class (Creating a Class) . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

That’s a Real Classy Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588
The Bonnette Pool & Spa Depot Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
Who Owns That Property? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
Behave Yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
Constructive Behavior Is the Key to Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
Methods Other than Constructors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596
Using the Pattern to Create an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598
Pool Supplies Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

C H AP T E R 2 7 Getting “Web-ified” (Web Applications) . . . . . . . . . . 611

Web Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612
Creating a Web Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614
Adding the Default.aspx Web Page to the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616
What Is Your Title? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618
Adding Static Text to a Web Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618
Viewing a Web Page in Full Screen View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620
Adding Another Web Page to the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621
Adding a Link Button Control to a Web Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621
Starting a Web Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623
Adding an Image to a Web Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
Closing and Opening an Existing Web Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627
I Want to Move Somewhere Else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628
Dynamic Web Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630
Coding the Submit Button’s Click Event Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
Can You Validate This? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638
Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

A PP E N D I X A Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

A PP E N D I X B Answers to Mini-Quizzes and TRY THIS Exercises . . . . . Online
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

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Clearly Visual Basic: Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 2012, Third Edition is designed
for a beginning programming course. The book assumes students have no previous
programming knowledge or experience. However, students should be familiar with basic
Windows skills and file management. The book’s primary focus is on teaching programming
concepts, with a secondary focus on teaching the Visual Basic programming language. In other
words, the purpose of the book is to teach students how to solve a problem that requires a
computer solution. The Visual Basic language is used as a means of verifying that the solution
works correctly.

Organization and Coverage

Clearly Visual Basic: Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 2012, Third Edition
contains 27 chapters and two appendices. In the chapters, students with no previous
programming experience learn how to analyze a problem specification and then plan and
create an appropriate computer solution. Pseudocode and flowcharts are used to plan the
solution, and desk-check tables are used to verify that the solution is correct before it is
coded. Students code the solutions using the Visual Basic 2012 language, and then desk-
check the code before it is executed. An entire chapter is devoted to teaching students how
to select appropriate test data. By the end of the book, students will have learned how to
write Visual Basic statements such as If…Then…Else, Select Case, Do…Loop, and
For…Next. Students also will learn how to create and manipulate variables, constants,
strings, sequential access files, structures, classes, and arrays. In addition, they will learn how
to connect an application to a Microsoft Access database, and then use Language Integrated
Query (LINQ) to query the database. They also will learn how to create simple Web
applications. The text also introduces students to OOP concepts and terminology. Appendix
A provides a listing of the data types available in Visual Basic. Appendix B, which is available
online at www.cengagebrain.com, contains the answers to the Mini-Quizzes and TRY THIS
Exercises in each chapter.

Approach
Rather than focusing on a specific programming language, Clearly Visual Basic:
Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 2012, Third Edition focuses on programming
concepts that are common to all programming languages—such as input, output, selection,
and repetition. Concepts are introduced, illustrated, and reinforced using simple examples
and applications, which are more appropriate for a first course in programming. The
concepts are spread over many short chapters, allowing students to master the material one
small piece at a time. Because its emphasis is on teaching the fundamentals of programming,
the book covers only the basic controls, properties, and events available in Visual Basic.
Each chapter provides the steps for creating and/or coding one or more applications that use
the concepts covered in the chapter. The videos and PDF files that accompany each chapter
are designed to help students master the chapter’s concepts.

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Features
Clearly Visual Basic: Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 2012, Third Edition is an
exceptional textbook because it also includes the following features:
READ THIS BEFORE YOU BEGIN This section is consistent with Cengage’s commitment to
helping instructors introduce technology into the classroom. Technical considerations and
assumptions about hardware, software, and default settings are listed in one place to help xiii
instructors save time and eliminate unnecessary aggravation.
DESIGNED FOR THE DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES The book provides videos for visual and
auditory learners, and tutorial sections and Want More Info? files for kinesthetic learners.
VIDEOS These notes direct students to videos that accompany each chapter in the book. The
videos explain and/or demonstrate one or more of the chapter’s concepts, provide additional
information about the concepts, or cover topics related to the concepts. The videos are available
online at www.cengagebrain.com. Search for the ISBN of your title (from the back cover of your
book) using the search box at the top of the page. This will take you to the product page where
free companion resources can be found.
WANT MORE INFO? FILES These notes direct students to files that accompany each chapter in
the book. The files contain additional examples and further explanations of the concepts
covered in the chapter. The files are in PDF format. The files are available online at www.
cengagebrain.com.

FIGURES Figures that introduce new statements, functions, or methods contain both the syntax
and examples of using the syntax. Including the syntax in the figures makes the examples more
meaningful, and vice versa.
OBJECTIVES Each chapter begins with a list of objectives so you know the topics that will be
presented in the chapter. In addition to providing a quick reference to topics covered, this
feature provides a useful study aid.
MINI-QUIZZES Mini-Quizzes are strategically placed to test students’ knowledge at various
points in each chapter. Answers to the quiz questions are provided in Appendix B.
APPENDIX B Appendix B, which is available online at www.cengagebrain.com, contains the
answers to each chapter’s Mini-Quizzes and TRY THIS Exercises. The answers are provided to
give students immediate feedback and more opportunity for learning.
SUMMARY Each chapter contains a Summary section that recaps the concepts covered in the
chapter.
KEY TERMS Following the Summary section in each chapter is a listing of the key terms
introduced throughout the chapter, along with their definitions.
REVIEW QUESTIONS Each chapter contains Review Questions designed to test a student’s
understanding of the chapter’s concepts.
EXERCISES The Review Questions in each chapter are followed by Exercises, which provide
students with additional practice of the skills and concepts they learned in the chapter. The
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 The Economics of Social Insurance
Social Insurance: With Special Reference to American Conditions, by I. M.
Rubinow. [Henry Holt and Company, New York.]

T he logic of events is rapidly forcing nation after nation into what

has hitherto been damned with the epithet paternalism.
America, perhaps, is the last important country in the world to
face the problems raised by the march of events in this direction.
Social insurance, a thing accomplished and a commonplace of
government functioning in so many countries, recently adopted in
England, is, in this country, still a novelty outside the university class
room and the lecture halls of fanatical demagogues who wish to
upset the foundations of our civil government and civilization—as the
elder politicians express it when their attention is drawn to these
sinister activities of thought.
The author of this book in fact was the first academic lecturer on
the subject to give a university course in the various forms which
social insurance has taken. These lectures he delivered before the
New York School of Philanthropy, and they are reprinted here in an
extended form.
After giving the philosophy of the matter, the underlying social
necessity for insurance, the author takes up the various forms of the
activity. Accident, disease, old age, and unemployment must all be
provided against, and the state, the employer, and the laborer may
share the burden among them, or the two latter may be relieved—as
in various types of non-contributory insurance.
Of course the old school economist will ask why the latter two are
not relieved, and why the employe or private citizen is not just
encouraged to insure with a private corporation. The author’s
answer is that, even if he were educated to the point of desiring to
do that, he could not. A man insures his house because the feeling
of security is worth the small premium he pays, even if that premium
is larger than the actual risk involved would warrant—larger by a
sum equal to the cost and profits of the business of the insurance
company. But the poor man’s chances of loss of employment,
accident, or sickness are so much greater in proportion to the
capitalized value of his job that he could never afford to pay the
premium necessary for a private company to take care of him; while
his old age could not be insured without taking all of his earnings—
and even then he might die before he reached it.
The situation then is that an admitted necessity cannot be
obtained unless the state as a whole takes steps to attain it for all
the members of the state. How other states have done this, how
type after type of insurance has been evolved, and how these types
may be adapted to American practice is the burden of the present
work.
The author writes in a clear and non-technical manner, and makes
no extravagant claims for what some people may regard as a social
panacea; but he is confident that the full development of the idea of
social insurance will relieve the worst aspects of poverty—the
aspects in which poverty is not only a hardship, but a haunting spirit,
sapping the vitality of its victims until they are rendered socially
useless.
Llewellyn Jones.

Prose Poems of Ireland

Red Hanrahan, by William Butler Yeats. New edition. [The Macmillan
Company, New York.]

I f you believe, with Chesterton, that “should the snap dragon open
its little pollened mouth and sing ’twould be no more wonderful a
thing” than that a solemn little blue egg should turn into a big
happy red-breasted bird; if you are of “the young men that dream
dreams” or of “the old men who have visions” the songs and the
tales and the wanderings and the mysteries of “Red” Owen
Hanrahan will thrill you with a sense of your real nearness to
“something lovelier than Heaven.”
 Such a group of tales of the people and by the people as Mr. Yeats
has gathered together in Red Hanrahan can be nothing if not a
personal matter. Frankly, I never saw a fairy, or a gnome, or a
hobgoblin. I have never even had a vision worth writing a book
about; but I am young yet, and if the gods continue to be kind.... In
the meanwhile I shall grasp the first opportunity to read Red
Hanrahan in a deep woods, at dusk—regardless of the optician’s
orders.
H. B. S.
 To William Butler Yeats
Marguerite O. B. Wilkinson

As one, who, wandering down a squalid street,

Where dingy buildings crowd each other high,
Where all who pass have need to hurry by,
Saddened and parched and fighting through the heat,
Comes suddenly where pain and beauty meet,
And sees a stretch of fair, unsullied sky,
Covering a field of clover bloom, so I,
With heart prepared to find the contrast sweet
In seeking through a world of sordid prose,
Where use-stained words with huddled shoulders stand
In sullen, monumental, loveless rows,
Have found a sudden green and sunny land
Where you, O Poet, give us back lost wonder,
Leisure, sweet fields, clean skies to travel under!
 Sentence Reviews
[Inclusion in this category does not preclude a more extended notice.]

The Titan, by Theodore Dreiser [John Lane Company, New York],

will be reviewed at length in the July issue.

Clay and Fire, by Layton Crippen. [Henry Holt and Company, New
York.] A provocative philosophical discussion of the basal problem of
religion by an author who treats pessimism according to the
homeopathic principle. Reasonable hopes are made to seem
hopeless. A morbid retrospectiveness may, however, force thought
into light, and the book leaves one in a strange illumination effected
by spiritual fire.

At the Sign of the Van, by Michael Monahan. [Mitchell Kennerley,

New York.] These essays include The Log of the Papyrus with Other
Escapades in Life and Letters. Whether he is praising Percival
Pollard, explaining Whitman’s cosmic consciousness—which he did to
a Whitman Fellowship gathering—or wistfully telling us how he
would like to have had a look in on the doings in Babylon, the
amorous dallyings which Jeremiah muckraked in the name of his
Comstockean Jehovah, Michael Monahan is always interesting even if
he is not always as stormy as his designation “the stormy petrel of
literature” would indicate. In truth it would take a number of birds of
different species—but all pleasant ones—to make up the tale of the
qualities which this versatile essayist exhibits in these pages.

Aphrodite and Other Poems, by John Helston. [The Macmillan

Company, New York.] Mr. Helston does not write great poetry,—
though he comes close to very good poetry at times,—but he writes
greatly about love. His attitude is a refusal to divorce the spiritual
from the earthly with which we have a hearty sympathy. No franker
love poetry has been written, probably; but somehow we failed to
find in it the sensuality that its critics have discovered. It is richly
pagan.

Love of One’s Neighbor, by Leonid Andreyev. [Albert and Charles

Boni, New York.] A very excellent translation of a one-act play which
will probably sell well, though coming from the author of The Seven
Who Were Hanged it seems a mere trifle. The translator, Thomas
Seltzer, should be urged to undertake the more worthy task of
introducing Andreyev’s really great work to English-speaking readers.

New Men for Old, by Howard Vincent O’Brien. [Mitchell Kennerley,

New York.] The first novel of a new young writer, especially when he
is as sincere as Mr. O’Brien and as deeply interested in the joy of
Work, is a matter of importance. The book has its obvious faults
technically, even psychologically, but it preaches socialism from an
interesting standpoint and makes good reading.

Challenge, by Louise Untermeyer. [The Century Co., New York.]

Virile and ambitious songs of the present. Caliban in the Coal Mines,
Any City, Strikers, In the Subway, The Heretic, show that the poet is
not a shrinker from modern life. The title poem sounds the keynote:

The quiet and courageous night,

The keen vibration of the stars
Call me, from morbid peace, to fight
The world’s forlorn and desperate wars.

John Ward, M.D., by Charles Vale. [Mitchell Kennerley, New York.]

Seneschal sentimentality with a “modern” plot woven about the
questionable science of eugenics. One of those irritating books in
which one reads page after page after page in the vain endeavor to
find out why Mitchell Kennerly spent his money on it.
 Forum Stories, selected by Charles Vale. [Mitchell Kennerley, New
York.] All these stories have appeared in The Forum since it came
under Mr. Kennerley’s management, and they are all by American
writers. They represent the work not only of such well known writers
as Reginald Wright Kauffman, James Hopper, Margaret Widdemer,
and John S. Reed—who has a tense little narrative of the struggle
toward land of two swimmers wrecked in the Pacific Ocean—but the
work of several lesser known but promising authors. Among them is
Miss Florence Kiper, of Chicago, who writes under the title I Have
Borne My Lord a Son a most penetrating study of the psychology of
motherhood.

Papa, by Zoë Akins. [Mitchell Kennerley, New York.] A little play

which shows so much determination to be clever and very, very
naughty that it’s almost a pity it doesn’t succeed.

Saint Louis: a Civic Masque, by Percy MacKaye. [Doubleday, Page

and Company, New York.] A valuable contribution to the dramatic
“spirit” of awakening civic intelligence.

Great Days, by Frank Harris. [Mitchell Kennerley, New York.]

Audacious, vivid, gripping sex experiences of the son of an immoral
English innkeeper. The big rough brother of Three Weeks.

Poems, by Walter Conrad Amberg. [Houghton Mifflin Company,

Boston.] Poems written with a sure and gentle delicacy that seems
forgotten by this generation of rude iconoclasts.

The True Adventures of a Play, by Louis Evan Shipman. [Mitchell

Kennerley, New York.] The play is D’Arcy of the Guards and its
author tells in full the trials and tribulations—and the eventual
triumph—which met him from the moment when he offered to
submit the manuscript to E. H. Sothern, and that star told him to
send it along. Not only are the details of acceptances of plays, the
incidental negotiations and red tape described, but the making of
costume plates, the designing of the whole presentation, and the
collaboration between author, producer, and actors are told with
such humor and documentary fidelity to the actual transactions that
the book will not only be interesting to the general reader but
indispensable to the tyro playwright.

Nova Hibernia, by Michael Monahan. [Mitchell Kennerley, New

York.] Competent, incisive studies, sketches, and lectures dealing
with “Irish poets and dramatists of today and yesterday”—Yeats,
Synge, Thomas Moore, Mangan, Gerald Griffin, Callahan, Doctor
Maginn, Father Prout, Sheridan, and others.

The Pipes of Clovis, by Grace Duffie Boylan. [Little, Brown, and

Company, Boston.] A forester’s son proficient on a magic pipe; a
blue and silver-gowned princess; the invasion of Swabia by the Huns
away back in the twelfth century, all woven into a romance for
children and grown-ups who still love the fairies.

The Post Office, by Rabindranath Tagore. [The Macmillan

Company, New York.] A touching little idyll of a sick child who longs
for a letter from the king through the post office which he can see
across the road. And his dream comes true. Written in rhythmic
prose.

Sanctuary, by Percy MacKaye. [Frederick A. Stokes, New York.] A

bird masque performed in September, 1913, for the dedication of the
bird sanctuary of the Meriden Bird Club at Meriden, N. H. A defense
of birds and a defense of poetry. The theme is the conversion of a
bird slaughterer. The verse is full of “birdblithesomeness.”

Old World Memories, by Edward Lowe Temple. [The Page

Company, Boston.] The story of a summer vacation in Europe as
naïve, as full of human interest, disjoined history, and worthy
indefinite advice as the after dinner “post card tour” of a just-
returned Cook’s traveler.
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