This Project is a Beginner’s Project, using Buttons, Picture Boxes, and Labels.
The idea is to progressively reveal Names and Pictures of a Top 5, from Number 5 up to Number 1.
The Topic you choose for your Top 5 topic can be about Movies, Music, Cars, Sports Teams, Actors, TV Shows, Cities, Music, Fashion Labels, Celebrities, Perfumes, Watches, etc.
New learning involves the "Visible" property and "Enabled" property of VB.Net Objects.
We strongly recommend that you get the FREE DOWNLOADABLE Resource Pack for this lesson, which includes full Instructions, Screen Design, Program Code, and all of the required images.
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.
If you are a Teacher or Instructor then click the DOWNLOADS link below and get the lesson materials for your students.
The Downloads are critically important if your school or institution blocks or discourages YouTube Videos.
The Lesson can be fully completed using the Download Guides without watching the Video.
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.
Or simply use the Downloads to do your own in class Presentation and Lesson on Games Programming in VB.NET.
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 Program
- Lesson Contents
- Adding the Background Image onto the Form
- Form Design for the Top 5 Reveal
- Alternative Form Design Layout
- Using Visible = False on Labels and Buttons
- Adding Program Code for the Form Buttons
- Testing Version 1 of the Top 5 Program
- Pseudocode Design for the "Reveal" Processing in Version 2
- VB.Net Program Coding using the "Enabled" Property
- Testing the Final Version 2 of the Top 5 Program
- Challenge Task - Healthy Fruits Program
- Pseudocode Logic Design for the Challenge Task
- Project Downloads for this Lesson
- Our Website Games Programming Course
- Video Wrap Up and Outro
Watch the following YouTube Video Tutorial about Creating the Desktop Clock.
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to follow along step by step with the Tutorial Video.
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