[Year 12 Its] VB.net student book

[Frank Merlino]

Thankyou all for the great resource materials you have provided.

Has anyone in the group actually set up a semester unit for years 9/10 for VB.net? I know the book by Adrian Jansen is a great resource that could be used at this level. Has anyone used this book as a class text for the type of unit I mentioned?

The Microsoft site is good for learning vb.net with its downloadable videos.

Regards,
Frank

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Sent: Monday, 29 May 2006 9:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 Its] VB.net student book


Hi Frank,

 I had a problem in the middle of last year where I had to provide Year 12 standard VB.NET work for a blind student in my class with almost no lead up time, who could not use Java due to limitations with his text to sound conversion program called JAWS.
 To cut a long story short here is a copy of my email I sent to the list with all the resources I used and the lessons I prepared to get this student through. 

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 Hi Folks,

     You may remember this subject line that I posted last term requesting help with VB.NET.

 Well , I got together enough from my java programs that I translated and help from the following sources :

 1. Damien Buck alerting me to some great on line videos demonstrating programming skills.
 2. Dr Alex Hopkins sending some worksheets he had prepared on database access from VB.NET using other resources in turn.
 3. Adrian Janson's book on VB.NET for Education 
 4. Graeme Summers bookn on Introducing VB.NET 

  to put into a package 6 exercises that,  whilst not perfect, demonstrate the key principles of object oriented programming , file access and validation.
 They are posted at www.edulists.com.au , under ITS,  and VB.NET resources.
 
  This is my way of expressing gratitude to all those who helped and hopefully these can be developed further ....

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 You could have found this at http://www.edulists.com.au/pipermail/is/2005-September/000295.html through a keyword search on Edulists.

Best Wishes


 


Kevork Krozian
IT Manager , Forest Hill College
k.krozian at fhc.vic.edu.au
http://www.fhc.vic.edu.au
Mobile: 0419 356 034

>>> frankm at sjc.vic.edu.au 05/28/06 05:57pm >>>
Dear IS Teacher,
I have recently downloaded VB.net Express. 
I would like to know if anyone has found or is using a book on vb.bnet with their students.
I would like to introduce it to a semester unit on programming, initially intended to sue VB 6, in years 9/10.
I am thinking of using VB.net in IS next year and I thought this would be a good way of getting into it. However, the students need reference materials, and I am "sick" of always creating my own notes....!1
 
Regards,
 
 
Frank Merlino
Technology (IT and Systems) Co-ordinator
Web Site Manager
St. Joseph's College
135 Aphrasia St, Newtown
Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 3219
Phone: 03 52 268100 


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