This site is a collage of information covering several programming languages. The content includes background information concerning the history of a selected language, available versions, sample code, and a number of tutorials for individuals ranging from beginners to advanced programmers.
Type of Material:
Material ranges from text to step-by-step tutorials. Tutorials include graphics and sample code to duplicate the examples as well as provide a tutorial for VB beginners and resource center for VB professionals.
Recommended Uses:
This material would easily serve for laboratory exercises in programming. Other uses may include homework assignments or classroom discussion as well as it can be used as a VB6 textbook for teaching or self-studying. It can also serve as a VB resource center for advanced VB users.
Technical Requirements:
For the particular language begin studied the user would need to have access to a development environment with that language. Web browsing.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
This site serves as a repository of programming information. The objectives are to provide the user with the history of the language, to inform the user of common problems encountered while using the language, and to guide the user to becoming a better programmer. Other sections of the site provide advanced VB users with useful VB resources.
Target Student Population:
These materials can be used either for lower division undergraduate students to learn programming principle, or for upper division undergraduate students to advance their VB knowlwdge.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Because there is information for a novice to an advanced programmer there is no prerequisite knowledge or skill required.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
Tutorials are divided into small manageable chunks. The lessons are concise and include graphics where reference is made to an item in the development environment. The style is conversational and written in an easy to understand fashion. There is a large breadth of material and each subject, while not exhaustive, does provide the necessary skills to duplicate the objective presented.
Concerns:
There is so much information available on this site that it may be overwhelming for some and difficult to remain focused on a particular task.The site is mainly dedicated to VB 6.0. It doesn't have tutorials for learning VB .NET. The tutorial of the site was last updated on April 17., 2001.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
This site would work well for laboratory exercises or assignments to supplement a text. The organization of the material makes it easy to locate a specific language and lesson based on the user's skill level.It covers materials for both beginners and professionals. The tutorial is well-written and explains concepts with screen shots and code examples. Topics are organized in three different levels (beginning VB, intermediate VB and advanced VB). In addition, the site contains various VB resources for professionals.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
The site is straight-forward and very easy to use. All lessons allow you to easily return to the home site or to move forward and backward in the lesson.All sections and topics links are valid.
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