In this beginner's lesson we fully explain the VB.Net Development Environment and show you how to create a quick and easy Visual Basic Jumping Button Game, which can be used to learn the fundamentals of the Label, Button, and Picture Box Objects.
The complex VB.Net Folder and Files structure is also shown and fully explained in this lesson.
We also explain how the VB.Net Screen Coordinates System works and how to use the "Left" and "Top" position properties of an Object to locate and move it.
We strongly recommend that you purchase and download the resources pack for this lesson, which includes Full Instructions, Screen Design, Program Code, and our fabulous laughing Emoji Image which we created using Adobe Animate and Photoshop.
The Step by Step Guide which is available below for this lesson, shows exactly what needs to be done.
This Guide has all of the Design Principles and Theory behind what is being done at each stage of Game Development.
Included in the Resources Download for this lesson are Visual Basic Code Listings, as well as Form Designs and Images.
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Give the Overview and Step by Step Guide PDFs to your students and we think that some of them will "get it" very quickly.
The other students will greatly benefit from watching the video for this lesson which goes through everything in full detail slowly with step by step with repetition of examples.
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Note that the example Lesson Images shown on this web page are basic Printscreens, whereas the actual original Images are of perfect clarity and quality in both the downloadable PDF Guide and Word Document for this lesson.
LESSON OVERVIEW
This lesson consists of a Video Presentation and Written Instructions where we cover the following:
- Lesson Introduction
- Preview of Finished Programs
- Learning Objectives
- How to Install the Free VB.Net Community Version
- VB.Net IDE Interface Development Environment
- Creating a New VB.Net Windows Forms Project
- How to "Save All" for the new VB.Net Project
- The Folder and File Structure of a VB.Net Project
- Using the IDE to place Toolbox Objects onto the Screen Form
- Modifying the Properties of Label, Button, and Picture Box Objects
- The VB.Net Screen Form Coordinates System
- Using Pseudocode to Design the Program Processing Logic
- Creating the Visual Basic Program Code for our Application
- Running and Creating the .exe Stand Alone Application
- Re-opening a saved and closed Project using the .sln shortcut file
- Challenge Task 1 - Make the Emoji Image Jump
- Challenge Task 2 - Making a Rollover Changes Color Button
- Our Website Game Programming Course
- Video Wrap Up and Outro
Watch the following YouTube Video Tutorial about Creating the Jumping Button Game.
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Our Programming Learning Modules are designed for complete beginners, and they have been extensively trialled with High School students learning Programming for the first time. They have a proven track record of being able to get everyone up and running with Microsoft Visual Basic - the world's most popular Beginner Programmer's language.
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Our students have found the Summary Guide to be far more useful than re-watching the Video, when it comes time for them to apply their newly acquired skills to Application Build tasks.
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