Visual Basic - an abject oriented approach gives the student a complete, practical introduction to programming using Visual Basic. The book discusses programming principles from an object oriented perspective and extends the discussion to object oriented software development. In doing so, it demonstrates that the Visual Basic language can be used to develop real object oriented systems and software components.

All the key topics are covered such as class design and modelling, algorithm design, structured programming, graphical user interfaces, data structures, persistence, software patterns and developing ActiveX software components.

Object oriented programming is placed in context, with a description of object oriented terminology and the Visual Basic approach to it, as well as its place in the development life cycle.

Software patterns and component software are used to demonstrate efficient use of classes and algorithms suitable for professional software development.

Each chapter contains self-assessment and review questions, and concludes with a fully developed practical exercise on the chapter topic.

A companion website for the book is available at www.booksites.net containing example programs in downloadable format, additional self-assessment questions and answers, and slides and lab sheets for use by lecturers.