Visual Basic

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Visual Basic

• Relevant paradigm and problem domains overview

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Advantages of Visual Basic

• Used to create nice looking graphical programs
  that dont require a lot of coding.
• Allows even users with little programming
  experience to quickly develop Microsoft Windows
  applications.
• Ideal for developing applications that run in
  Windows.

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Example of Usage

• Develop programs that can be used as an
  application to a database system and serve as the
  user interface that collects user input.
• It also displays output in a more appealing and
  useful way than many SQL software versions.

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Visual Basics Success

• Brought simplification to Windows application
  programming.
• Eliminated the need to write code for Graphical
  User Interface (GUI) input/output.

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Fields of usage

• Education
• Research and Science
• Medicine
• Business
• Commerce
• Marketing and sales
• Accounting
• Law

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How Did VB evolve?

• 1963 math professors John G Kemeny and Thomas E
  Kurtz developed BASIC.
• BASIC was easy and cheap to implement and rapidly
  gained popularity, especially in applications
  programming.

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• 1975 Microsoft launched a BASIC compiler for the
  MITS Altair.
• Also in 1975, the first GUIs were demonstrated.
• 1980s Apple introduced 2 machines featuring GUIs
  Lisa and Macintosh.

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• Father of Visual Basic (referred to as VB for
  short) Alan Cooper.
• 1987 Alan Cooper wrote a program called Ruby that
  delivered visual programming to the average
  programmer or user.
• The rising popularity of GUIs caused Microsoft to
  release the first official version of VB in 1991.