Visual Studio

							           Visual Programming

                                   Instructor: Fahad Hassan
                                                 Lecture # 01




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Outline

       Course Overview: Goals & Objectives
       Class Protocols
       Course Outline
       Programming Fundamentals Basic Concepts
       Object Oriented Programming Concepts
       Introduction to Visual Programming
       .NET Framework
       Reading Suggestions


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Course Overview: Goals & Objectives

       Be able to get into the IT industry with professional
        knowledge of visual programming languages.
       Design and solve a problem using structured, object
        oriented and event driven paradigm.
       Learn about each phase in software life cycle.
       Introduce yourself to .NET Framework,Visual Studio
        2010, C#, MS SQL Server 2008.
       Deploy software project through the setup project.



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Course Protocols

       Try to come to class in time.
       Feel free to ask questions in lecture, outside lecture
       Read the books/reading material (as much as you can)
       Work hard. There is no short cut!
       Discussions and class dialogue
       24/7 email turn around
           Fahad.hassan@cs.uol.edu.pk
       Course Site:
        https://sites.google.com/a/cs.uol.edu.pk/visual-
        programming

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Programming Fundamentals Basic Concepts

       Scope of variables
           The scope of a name is the region of program text within
            which it is possible to refer to the entity declared by the name
            without qualification of the name.
       Data types (Built-in & User-defined)
       Functions
       Arrays
       Pointers



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Object Oriented Programming Concepts
       Class: A class can be defined as a template/ blue print
        that describe the behaviors/states that object of its type
        support.




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OOP Concepts (Cont…)
       Objects: Objects have states and behaviors. Example: A
        dog has states-color, name, breed as well as behaviors -
        wagging, barking, eating. An object is an instance of a class.




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OOP Concepts (Cont…)
       Properties: Properties are members that provide a
        flexible mechanism to read, write, or compute the values
        of private fields. Properties can be used as though they
        are public data members, but they are actually special
        methods called accessors. This enables data to be
        accessed easily while still providing the safety and
        flexibility of methods.




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OOP Concepts (Cont…)

    Encapsulation: Well, in a nutshell, encapsulation is the
     hiding of data implementation by restricting access to
     accessors and mutators.



    Abstraction: Data abstraction is the simplest of
     principles to understand.




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OOP Concepts (Cont…)
    Inheritance: Classes can inherit from another class. This
     is accomplished by putting a colon after the class name
     when declaring the class, and naming the class to inherit
     from—the base class—after the colon, as follows:




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OOP Concepts (Cont…)
    The new class—the derived class—then gains all the non-
     private data and behavior of the base class in addition to
     any other data or behaviors it defines for itself. The new
     class then has two effective types: the type of the new
     class and the type of the class it inherits.




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Visual Programming



    In computing, a visual programming language (VPL) is any
     programming language that lets users create programs by
     manipulating program elements graphically rather than by
     specifying them textually




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.NET Framework


    The .NET Framework (pronounced dot net) is a software
     framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on
     Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and
     provides language interoperability (each language can use
     code written in other languages) across several
     programming languages.




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Reading Suggestions


    Consult the course site to read out about basic
     programming concepts, OOP concepts, C#, .NET, etc.
        https://sites.google.com/a/cs.uol.edu.pk/visual-programming/




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