Week 1

Basics

100

What makes a computer smart?

Programming

200

What is a computer's native language called?

Machine Language

300

What does the compiler program do?

Converts programming instructions to machine language.

400

Like a book, Visual Basic has structure: modeuls are like chapters, procedures are ;like paragraphs, and [blank of code] are like sentences. Fill in the blank.

Lines of code

500

Visual Basic has programming elements-name one.

"statements"
"declarations"
"methods"
"operators"
"keywords"

Variables

100

What keywords do you use to declare a variable?

DIM and AS

Example: Dim aText As String

200

True or False:

Dim aNum as String

Declares the variable aNum as a plasce to store only numbers.

False

Declasing any variable as string means it contains text which can be either numbers and/or letters and/or special characters.

300

What kind of variable [data type] contains only "True" or "False"?

Boolean

400

What symbol do you use to assign values to a variable?

the EQUAL sign

500

There are 3 steps to using a variable:
1. Declare it
2.Assign it
3.????? (what is ????)

Use the variable

Words & Text

100

Name the data type we use to represent words and text.

String

200

Yes or No:
Can a string contain numbers and special characters?

Yes
Strings can contain just about anything.

300

Is this declaration valid?

DIM aString As String = This is a string

NO - string values must be enclosed in quotes.

400

DIM aString as String = "Olivia"
DIM bString as String = "Van Vreede"
bString = aString

What is the value of bString?

Olivia

500

When we combine two or more strings together what is it called?

Concatenation where we use an ampersand symbol [&]