Department of Management Science / Information Systems

Information Systems and Decision Sciences (714) 278-2221 / Fax (714) 278-5940 

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COURSE: INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DECISION SCIENCES 411 MICROCOMPUTER BUSINESS APPLICATION DESIGN 

PROFESSOR: DR. MABEL T. KUNG 

OFFICE: LH 517 

OFFICE HRS: MTWR 5 – 6 PM 

PHONES: (714) 278-3077 (MY OFFICE) (714) 278-2221 (SECRETARY) 

EMAIL mkung@fullerton.edu 

TEXT: David I. Schneider, An Introduction to Programming Using Visual Basic.Net, Prentice Hall. 

GRADING: PROJECTS 20% EXAM 1 25% EXAM 2 25% COMPREHENSIVE FINAL 30% 

NO MAKEUP EXAMS WILL BE GIVEN. ALL EXAMS ARE OPEN BOOK AND OPEN NOTES. ALL EXAMS WILL BE PERFORMED IN THE COMPUTER LAB. 

EXAM DATES: 

EXAM 1 …………….. JUNE 17 (TUESDAY) EXAM 2 …………….. JULY 1 (TUESDAY) 

FINAL …………….. JULY 10 (THURSDAY) 

SOFTWARE: Visual Basic and Microsoft Office will be used extensively for projects. 

COURSE OUTLINE: (This is a tentative course outline subject to change) 

TOPICS 

Design of Business Applications using Loops, Nested Loops 

Loan Analysis Program Creating and Accessing Arrays Control Arrays 

Overview on Components, ActiveX, DLLs, .EXE Components 

Sort and Search Methods Shell Sort Binary Search 

Two-Dimensional Tables Design and User Interface 

Sequential and Random Access File Processing 

Recording Checks and Deposits Program 

Controls and Objects List Boxes and Combo Boxes Frame, Check Box, Option Button, Horizontal and Vertical Scroll Bar Timer, Shape, Line, and Image Controls 

FlexGrid Control, Menu Control Clipboard Object, Multiple Forms, Common Dialog Control Graphics and Computer Games 

Databases Data Control FlexGrid Control Data-Bound List Box and Combo Box Control 

Creating Databases with Visual Data Manager Principles of Database Design Relational Databases Primary and Foreign Keys SQL Object-Oriented Programming Classes and Objects 

Collections and Events Class Relationships Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) OLE Automation OLE Container Control Embedding with Excel Linking with Word Web Browser 

Walkthrough ActiveX controls in HTML Web Page with VBScript