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Ui Luu (Coach)
Office Hours: 4:00 - 5:00PM (T&R) @ T1-119 & By Appointments
email: coach@technology-systems.com
Voice mail: (Office) 623-845-3173 (Home) 480-759-1703

Lecture (section 5812) & Lab (section 5813)

Class Meets every Tuesday & Thursday 6:30 -8:35 PM @ T1-101
+ Project Supplement

Course Summary
Introductory coverage of programming techniques in Visual BASIC. Flowcharting,
pseudocoding, coding, testing, and documenting programs in accordance with
specifications. Prerequisites: None.

Reference:

Electronic Project based study guide will be distributed at the beginning of
each class for project based assignments (USB Flash Drive [512 MB
minimum] is required for storing & distributing electronic folders)

Reference books:(Optional)

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Step by Step (Michael Halvorson)
Automating Science and Engineering Laboratories (Mark Russo)

Luu's Laws:

Law #0: Simplicity :

Beauty is Simple

Law #1: Connectivity :

99% of problems are connections.
This law applies to hardwares, systems and
business enterprise

Law #2: Software Entropy :

Every feature creates 2 bugs
to fix 1, you create 2 more

Class Schedule

Week #1 (3/20)
VB User Interface

Week #2(3/27)
Timings & Controls

Week #3(4/3)
Control Logics using USB Interface

Week #4(4/10)
Project : Automatic Environment
Control
*** Prep for Midterm Exam

Week #5(4/17)
Serial Communication
*** Midterm Exam

Week #6(4/24)
Final Project (Part I)
(Process Control - Manual Mode)

Week #7(5/1)
Final Project (Part II)
(Process Control - Auto Mode)

Week #8(5/8)
*** Final Project Presentation