[Year 12 SofDev] VB.net reference guide

[Andrew Grimshaw]

point taken mark

even better than me doing it would be getting the students to do it i guess!

problem is we're a little pushed for time with getting them up the the level 
they need - most came into the course with little or no programming 
experience

-andrew


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kelly" <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
To: "Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List" 
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Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] VB.net reference guide


> Actually, I find it sometimes useful to reinvent the wheel - it solidifies 
> learning much more strongly than just reading what someone else put 
> together.
>
> I remember once creating my own spreadsheet program using Visual Basic : 
> it was truly terrible, limited and hideously slow, but I learned a huge 
> amount about spreadsheets as well as discovering concepts like stacks and 
> sparse-array programming and then developing algorithms to cope with them.
>
> Andrew Grimshaw wrote:
>> HI every1
>>  does any1 know of a simple reference for VB.net functions that outlines 
>> what they do and what arguments they require?
>>  i have found that the built-in one on visual studio contains alot more 
>> info than my students need
>>  I have looked on the net and havent found anything suitable
>>  (ill probably end up typing one myself, but id rather not reinvent the 
>> wheel!)
>>  andrew grimshaw
>> colac secondary college
>
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