Programming in Visual Basic 4th sem

Programming in Visual Basic 4th sem

UNIT –I

Introduction to Visual Studio: Features of Visual basic, Visual Basic
applications, compile, run, Difference between Visual Basic and .NET
languages.
Open, close existing project, possible menu variations, use the Form
Designer, Code Editor, Solution Explorer, work with Visual Studio's
windows.
Design a form: Add controls to a form, Set properties, common
properties for forms and controls, add navigation features, property
settings, use Document Outline view, name and save files of a project,
Design and property settings for the form, Refer to properties,
methods, events, Add code to a form, create an event handler for the
default event of a form or control, code with a readable style, code
comments, detect and correct syntax errors.
Use the toolbar buttons, collapse or expand code, print source code,
code snippets, Smart Compile Auto Correction feature, My feature and
debug a project.

UNIT –II

Work with numeric and string data: Work with the built-in value
types- Declare and initialize variables, declare and initialize constants,
code arithmetic expressions, code assignment statements, work with
the order of precedence, use casting, change the type semantics, work
with strings, declare and initialize a string, join and append strings.
Data types, use Visual Basic functions to convert data types, use
methods to convert data types, formatting functions, use methods to
convert numbers to formatted strings,
Code control structures: Code Boolean expressions, relational
operators, logical operators, conditional statements, If statements,
Select Case statements, loops, For loops, Do loops, use Exit and
Continue statements, Debugging techniques for programs with loops.

UNIT –III

Code procedures and event handlers: Code and call procedures- Sub
procedures, call Sub procedures, pass arguments by reference and by
value, code and call Function procedures, work with events, start an
event handler for any event, handle multiple events with one event
handler, use the Code Editor to start an event handler, add and
remove event writing.
The Function procedure, event handlers, Message box
Handle exceptions and validate data: Introduction to data validation
and exception handling, use the IsNumeric function, display a dialog
box for error messages, exception handling works, Use structured
exception handling, catch an exception, properties and methods of an
exception, throw an exception, application with exception handling.
Validate data: Validate a single entry, use generic procedures to
validate an entry, validate multiple entries, application with data
validation, dialog boxes, code, Difference between Validating event and
masked text box.

UNIT IV

Arrays and collections: one-dimensional arrays, create an array,
assign values to the elements of an array, use For loops to work with
arrays, use For Each loops to work with arrays, work with rectangular
arrays, create a rectangular array, assign values to a rectangular
array, work with rectangular arrays, create a jagged array, assign
values to a jagged array, work with jagged arrays, use the Array class,
refer to and copy arrays, code procedures that work with arrays, Work
with list, sorted list, queues, stacks, array list.
Dates and strings: create a Date Time value, get the current date &
time, format Date Time values, perform operations on dates and times,
work with strings, procedures for validating user entries, Format
numbers, dates, and times, Format numbers.
Types of controls, combo boxes, list boxes, check boxes, radio buttons,
group boxes, use Tab Order view to set the tab order.
Multi form projects: Add a form to a project, rename a form, change
the startup form for a project, display a form as a dialog box, pass
data between a form and a custom dialog box, Use the Message Box
Display a dialog box and get the user response, use the Form Closing
event.
Debug an application: set the debugging options, break mode, use the
Edit Continue feature, breakpoints, debugging windows, Locals
window to monitor variables, use the Autos window to monitor
variables, Watch windows to monitor expressions, Call Stack window
to monitor called procedures, Output window to get build or
debugging information.

Text & Reference Books:
1. Anne Boehm, Mike Murach and Associates “Murach's Visual Basic
2008”, Publisher of Professional Programming.
2. Steven Holzner Visual Basic 6 programming, Black Book, Dream
tech press

Note: In each theory paper, nine questions are to be set. Two
questions are to be set from each Unit and candidate is required
to attempt at least one question from each unit. Question
number nine will be compulsory, which will be of short answer
type with 5010 parts, out of the entire syllabus. In all, five
questions are to be attempted.

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (BCA)

As per the amendments on 14.8.15 by the Executive Council of H.P.

University, Shimla and effective from session 2015-16 onwards

Duration: 3 Years (6 Semesters)

1. About the Course

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) is three years under

graduate course spread over six semesters under self financing

scheme.

2. Eligibility

Candidates who have passed 10+2 examination from H.P.

Board/CBSE/ICSE or any other examination considered equivalent to

10+2, by the Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla05, with 40%

Marks (35% marks for SC/ST category), shall be eligible.

Maximum age limit for admission to BCA course is 21 years for

general category, 24 years for SC/ST category and 23 years for girls

candidates, as on the 1st July of the year concerned. The

Vice0Chancellor may permit age relaxation up to maximum of three

months.

3. Mode of Selection

The admission to BCA course will be made on the basis of merit

of the qualifying examination.

As per H.P. University rules 75% seats will be filled out of the

candidates who have passed their 10+2 examination from the school

situated in Himachal Pradesh irrespective of the Board. Remaining

25% seats will be filled on all India basis. Other reservation rules of

H.P. University shall be applicable.

4. Scheme of Examination

The pass percentage in each subject will be 40%.

i) Theory Papers:

For Regular students each paper will be of 100 marks (70

marks for End Semester Examination and 30 marks for Continuous

Comprehensive Assessment) and duration of each paper will be 3

hours.

For ICDEOL students each theory paper will be of 100 marks

and of 3 hours duration.

In each theory paper, nine questions are to be set. Two

questions are to be set from each Unit and candidate is required to

attempt at least one question from each unit. Question number nine

will be compulsory, which will be of short answer type with 5 to 10

parts, out of the entire syllabus. In all, five questions are to be

attempted.

i) Continuous Comprehensive Assessment (CCA) accounting for

30% of the final grade that a student gets in a course; and

ii) End-Semester Examination (ESE) accounting for the remaining

70% of the final grade that the student gets in a course.

    Note:

    1. A student will have to pass both the components (i.e.

    CCA and ESE) separately to become eligible to be declared

    successful in a course.

    2. The ratio of Continuous Comprehensive Assessment

    (CCA) and End-Semester Examination (ESE) would remain

    unchanged (i.e. 50:50) for the students of the academic

    sessions admitted in 2013 and 2014.

Mid-Term (Minor) Test – There will be one mid-term test, to be

conducted when approximately 2/3 of the syllabus has been covered.

This mid-term test will be for 15 marks. Mid-term test will be

conducted by the college in consultation with the teacher.

Note:

   Mid-term (Minor) Test will be of 30 marks for the students

   of the academic sessions admitted in 2013 and 2014

   respectively.

Seminar/Assignment/Term Paper–The remaining 10 marks of the

CCA will be awarded on the basis of seminar/assignment/term paper

etc. that the course teacher might give to the students.

   Note:

   Seminar/Assignment/Term Paper will be of 15 marks for

   the students of the academic sessions admitted in 2013 and

   2014.

End-Semester Examination (ESE): The remaining 70% of the final

grade of the student in a course will be on the basis of an end-

semester examination (ESE) that will be for three hours duration and

will be covering the whole syllabus of the course.

   Note:

   1. Only those students will be allowed to appear in the ESE

    who have been successful in the CCA.

   2. The remaining 50% of the final grade for the students of

   the academic sessions 2013 and 2014 in a course will be on

   the basis of an end-semester examination (ESE) that will be

   for three hours duration and will be covering the whole

   syllabus of the course.

A student, who fulfills all the requirements for appearing in a semester

examination, is unable to appear in the examination or to complete it

on account of his/her own serious illness, accident, or on account of

the death of near relative (mother, father, brother and sister), or the

dates of state or national level examinations falls on dates of the

semester exams may be allowed to appear in the semester exam in the

next academic year when examination for that semester is due.

Permission to sit in the examination will be permitted by college

Principal/Director on the production of a valid certificate/document

from the competent authority. The college will send the name of the

student to the Registration and Migration Cell for information.

The question paper for the ESE may have any one of the following

patterns:

Part A

Fifteen objective type questions (MCQ / True or False / fill in the

blanks etc.) for 1 mark each. 15 × 1= 15 marks

Part B

Ten short answer (25 words) type questions for 2 marks each.

10 × 2 = 20 marks

Part C

Ten questions of Medium Length Answer type (50 words) for 4 marks

each of which five will have to be answered.

5× 4 = 20 marks

Part D

Three questions of long answer (400 words) type, of which one is to be

attempted for 15 marks.

15 × 1 = 15 marks

Total marks (A + B + C + D) 15+ 20 + 20 +15 = 70 marks.

OR (PREFRABLY)

Part A (Compulsory)

Compulsory of 30 marks consisting of 10 objective type questions of

1 mark each (in MCQ/True False/Fill in the blanks or such type), and

five short answer questions (25 to 50 words) of 4 marks each covering

whole of the syllabus.

Part B (UNIT I)

One question out of two questions each of 10 marks. Each of these

questions may contain sub parts and will be long type.

Part C (UNIT II)

One question out of two questions each of 10 marks. Each of these

questions may contain sub parts and will be long type.

Part D (UNIT III)

One question out of two questions each of 10 marks. Each of these

questions may contain sub parts and will be long type

Part E (UNIT IV)

One question out of two questions each of 10 marks. Each of these

questions may contain sub parts and will be of long type.

Total marks (A + B + C + D + E) 30+10+10+10+10 = 70 marks.

  The result would be declared by the Controller of Examination of the

state University and the degree (or certificate or diploma

as the case may be) conferred. A candidate shall be eligible for the

conferment of the Bachelor’s degree only if he / she has earned the

minimum required credits for the programme prescribed in the

regulations (i.e. (a) For a bachelors degree with major (honours): 120

credits in total and minimum of 9 credits in Compulsory Courses; 56

credits in Core Courses; a minimum of 40 credits in Elective Courses

(minimum 20 credits in each of the minor subjects, or (b) For a

bachelors degree: 106 credits with 48 credits in Core Courses; 48

credits in Elective Courses (24 credits in each of the two subjects

studied) and minimum of 9 credits in Compulsory Courses); and a

minimum of 1 credit of GI and H.

ii) Practical Examination

      Max. Marks: 50

CCA (Continuous Comprehensive Assessment):                 35

ESE (End Semester Examination):                                       15

Duration: 3 hours.

Practical exam will be conducted by the external examiner from

the panel submitted to The Chairman, Computer Science Department,

state University and duly approved by the competent

authority of the university, state University,

iii) Project Work

        Max. Marks: 50

CCA (Continuous Comprehensive Assessment):              35

ESE (End Semester Examination):                                    15

In the 6th semester the student has to develop one project,

which will be evaluated by the external examiner from the panel

submitted to The Chairman, Computer Science Department,

Himachal Pradesh University, and duly approved by the university

authority/evaluation branch, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla on

the following basis:

       1. Project Report 10 Marks (To be evaluated externally)

        2. Seminar 15 Marks (To be evaluated internally)

       3. Viva Voce 25 Marks (To be evaluated externally)

  5. Medium of Instruction

        English will be the medium of instruction as well as

examination

6. Promotion Rule

        As per the University norms.