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  1. Apr 4th, 2001, 12:36 PM #1
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    I'm writing a tutorial what kind of terminology should a beginner know before hand

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  2. Apr 4th, 2001, 12:42 PM #2
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    Property
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    A tutorial on what?

    Computers, Programming or Specifically VB Programming?

    If it's the latter, then I would go with

    Forms, Controls, Events, Methods, Functions, Subs, Variables (and their scope)

    I would leave controls & classes (& properties) until a later stage.

    But of course, this is just my humble opinion. What does everyone else think?

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    Oh Yeah, and Public and Private scopes.
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    Events definatly, i forgot that. Forms and controls should be held till after the othr stuff is understood. Especially objects since that pertains to languages other than VB.
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    There is always API

    You could include a reference to API, but that might be the final chapter...
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  8. Apr 4th, 2001, 01:19 PM #7
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    API is an advanced topic for beginners. I would think that you should make some reference to the Object Orientation aspect of VB.
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    Yeah, I agree with Cander. Leave forms and controls until later. They would just confuse things. Especially when you consider how many controls there are.

    You could start off teaching stuff to read and write files and manipulate the data in between. (again, I wouldn't go into databases this early). That way you can safely avoid having forms. You could then progress from procedural code (subs and functions) onto event driven programming.

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    Algoritm, that's probably the most important keyword a programmer should know.
    Variables, datatypes
    Asignment, operators, methods
    Sequential Programming/Code Reusage
    Object Orientation
    API

    in that order.
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