Transcript Visual Basic

Visual Basic
Relevant paradigm and
problem domains overview
Advantages of Visual Basic:
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Used to create nice looking graphical
programs that don’t require a lot of
coding.
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Allows even users with little programming
experience to quickly develop Microsoft
Windows applications.
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Ideal for developing applications that run
in Windows.
Example of Usage:
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Develop programs that can be used
as an application to a database
system and serve as the user
interface that collects user input.
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It also displays output in a more
appealing and useful way than many
SQL software versions.
Visual Basic’s Success
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Brought simplification to Windows
application programming.
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Eliminated the need to write code for
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
input/output.
Fields of usage:
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Education
Research and Science
Medicine
Business
Commerce
Marketing and sales
Accounting
Law
How Did VB evolve?
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1963 math professors John G
Kemeny and Thomas E Kurtz
developed BASIC.
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BASIC was easy and cheap to
implement and rapidly gained
popularity, especially in applications
programming.
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1975 Microsoft launched a BASIC
compiler for the MITS Altair.
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Also in 1975, the first GUIs were
demonstrated.
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1980s Apple introduced 2 machines
featuring GUIs: Lisa and Macintosh.
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Father of Visual Basic (referred to as
VB for short): Alan Cooper.
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1987 Alan Cooper wrote a program
called Ruby that delivered visual
programming to the average
programmer or user.
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The rising popularity of GUIs caused
Microsoft to release the first official
version of VB in 1991.