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Developers School for Learning VB.Net
What is all of this?
This is a kind of interactive learning platform where those who want to learn .Net with VB.Net (Visual Basic.Net) can find help and support. There will be chapter a week describing some areas of the VB Programming Language with the Microsoft .Net Platform. This is not a traditional passive tutorial where the author only writes and the reader only reads. There will be exercise problems at the end of each lesson, which you as the reader and student are supposed to solve after reading the lesson. The solutions to the exercises will be provided in the next lesson for you to reflect upon. There is also a dedicated message board coupled with the school where you can ask any questions relating to the lessons. The author will respond to your question within 2/3 days.
Learning path of the school
There will be three levels on this learning curve. In the first (beginner) level, we will be discussing the .Net Framework, VB.Net Language Fundamentals and Object Oriented Programming in VB.Net. In the second (intermediate) level, we will look in more details at Object Oriented constructs in VB.Net, such as inheritance, polymorphism, abstract classes, interfaces, structures, enumerations and exceptions. In the third (advanced) level we will look at a range of areas that you will need to be knowledgeable in to solve real world problems using VB.Net with the .NET Base Libraries. Later on topics, such as Collections, Delegates, Events, Windows Programming with lot of controls, Data Access with ADO.Net, Threads and Streams. In short, you will learn a lot with ease and comfort if you attend the school regularly.
Tools you need to enter the school:
Most of the time these examples are written in the standard IDE; Visual Studio.Net. To follow precisely to the letter you will need this. There is a free Visual Studio.Net trial version available at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/trial/
The trial must be ordered on a CD and therefore it's appropriate to order it right away. You also need to download the .Net Framework, which can be downloaded freely from
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa731542.aspx
The .Net Framework also contains the VB.Net Compiler so you can also use this to compile the examples given in the lessons using a text editor such as notepad if you do not have the IDE ( As mentioned above ) or just cant wait to start learning.
About the Author:
Faraz Rasheed is a student of BSCS in the department of Computer Science, University of Karachi, Pakistan. He is also part of Operation Badar - an IT educational movement in Pakistan. He is an international student member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and INETA (International .Net Association). He has keen interest in Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) and development in programming languages like VB.NET, Java, VC++ and VB.Net. He can be accessed via
farazrasheed@acm.org or
frazrasheed@hotmail.com
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