Programming can be a tricky and frustrating business, especially in dealing with long or complex programs.

      Fortunately, your computer has many features designed to ease the programming benders, and to help you track down errors and correct them. We describe these features and also present some more tips to help you develop programs more quickly and with fewer errors. The knowledge of Visual Basic, at least as introduced here, will help you build automated office applications in Microsoft Word, Excel, Access etc and even in applications included in office packages realized and freely delivered by other manufacturers, such as Sun's OpenOffice.org. To help the students who are already familiar with Pascal or C++ programming languages towards a fast understanding Visual Basic, a parallel presentation is realized for different programming sentences and control structures.

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