New Concept Visual Basic 6 Tutorial

Author: Hao Chunqiang
Publisher: Beijing Kehai Group Co., Ltd.
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Features: Preface
Visual Basic is an integrated development environment (IDE) released by Microsoft Corporation and is one of the development tools in the Microsoft Visual Studio series. It is known for its simplicity, powerful functionality, low software cost, and quick results. Visual Basic adopts object-oriented programming techniques, making the development of Windows applications faster and more straightforward. Whether you are an experienced professional developer of Microsoft Windows applications or a beginner, Visual Basic provides a comprehensive set of tools to facilitate application development.
Visual Basic inherits the easy-to-learn and user-friendly characteristics of the Basic language. Learning Visual Basic is much easier than learning other object-oriented programming languages such as Java or C++, making it the preferred language for those learning programming. This book is written based on the Chinese version of Visual Basic 6.0. The book is divided into fifteen chapters, covering comprehensive content, but it does not list all the features of Visual Basic comprehensively. Instead, it follows the principle of practicality in selecting and organizing the content. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic, introducing the ideas and methods of application development using the Visual Basic language in a step-by-step, progressive, and easy-to-understand manner.
The greatest feature of this book is that it introduces the basics and methods of programming through examples, avoiding dry and empty theory. Moreover, the examples provided in the book are highly practical. In the explanation of the examples, the design objectives are first presented, followed by an introduction to the basic ideas and methods for achieving these objectives. Then, the design process is detailed (including the design of the interface and the writing of the code). Finally, the key parts of the program are explained, along with the demonstration of the program's running results.
This book aims to help readers learn the general ideas and methods of object-oriented programming while studying Visual Basic. Object-oriented programming is a new concept and method in programming, as well as a future direction in programming design. Learning this relatively simple object-oriented programming language like Visual Basic can lay a solid foundation for later studying other object-oriented programming languages.
This book is designed for beginners and intermediate learners. Readers do not need to have prior knowledge of Visual Basic, even if they are completely new to programming. For readers with some background, they can skip chapters that introduce basic knowledge. This book was carefully planned and written by the author based on years of using VB. It is clear in concepts, strong in logic, well-organized in structure, and rich in practical examples, but minor omissions and errors are inevitable. We sincerely welcome feedback and corrections from readers.
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December 2000