LAB MANUAL

Programming
With
VB.NET
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Exercise 1.0

1. What are the meanings of the terms “programmer” and “user”?

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2. Many programming languages, including Visual Basic, use a zero-based
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3. What is the difference between coding and programming?
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Exercise 2.0

Briefly explain the following terms

1. .Net Framework Class Library:

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2. Object-oriented programming language:
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Exercise 2.1

Build and test the application in this session and assign a student’s name to the Text
property of the Textbox control named NameTextBox and a student’s department to
the textbox control named MajorTextBox.

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Exercise 2.2

a. Provide the name of the controls in the figure below.

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Exercise 3.0
Fill in the blank spaces in below in regards to Flowchart.

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Exercise 3.1
Write a program that computes the sum of two numbers and displays the result in
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Exercise 3.2
The cost of the electricity used by a device is given by the formula;

Cost of electricity = wattage of device * hours used * cost per kW / 100, 000

where kWh is an abbreviation for “kilowatt hour.” The cost per kWh of electricity varies
with locality. In 2018, the average cost of electricity for a residential customer in Ghana
was 12¢ per kWh. Write a program that allows the user to calculate the cost of
operating an electrical device.

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Exercise 4.0
The flowchart below calculates a person’s income tax. Write a program corresponding
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Exercise 4.1

Write a program that requests your date of birth as input and tells whether or not you
are 25 years old or older. If not, the program should tell you the number of days until
you will have your 25th birthday.

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Exercise 4.2

A clothing store advertises “BUY 2 ITEMS AND THE 3 IS FREE.” What they mean is
that if you buy three items, then the lowest cost item is free. Write a program that
accepts the three costs as input and then calculates the total cost after dropping the
lowest cost.

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In Exercises 1 through 6 , determine the output displayed in the text box or list box by the lines of code.

1. txtBox.Text = "Visual Basic"

2. Dim var As String

var = "Bert"
txtBox.Text = var

3. Dim var As String

var = "Ernie"
lstBox.Items.Add(var)

4. lstBox.Items.Add("a" & "cute")

5. Dim s As String, n As Integer

s = "trombones"
n = 76
txtBox.Text = n & " " & s

6. Dim m As Integer = 4
Dim n As Integer = 3
Dim s As String = "Microsoft"
Dim t As String = "soft"
lstOutput.Items.Add(s.Length)
lstOutput.Items.Add(s.ToLower)
lstOutput.Items.Add(s.Substring(m, n − 1))
lstOutput.Items.Add(s.IndexOf(t))

In Exercises 7 through 11 , identify any errors.

7. Dim hiyo As String

hiyo = "Silver"
txtBox = "Hi-Yo " & hiYo

8. Dim num As Double = 1234

txtBox.Text = CStr(num.IndexOf("2"))

9. Dim num As Integer = 45

txtBox.Text = CStr(num.Length)

10. Dim m As Decimal, n As Integer

m = 2 ^ 3
n = 4 / 2

11. Dim m As Decimal, n As Integer

m =
12. PRICE OF KETCHUP The following steps compute the price of ketchup:
a. Declare the variable item as type String. Declare the
variables regularPrice and discount as type Decimal.
b. Assign “ketchup” to the variable item.
c. Assign 1.80 to the variable regularPrice.
d. Assign .27 to the variable discount.
e. Assign to the variable discountPrice the expression
(NOTE: The product is 1.53.)
f. Display the sentence “1.53 is the sale price of ketchup.”

13. DISTANCE FROM A STORM If is the number of seconds between lightning and thunder, the storm
is /5 miles away.
Write a program that reads the number of seconds between lightning and thunder and reports the
distance of the storm rounded to two decimal places.

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