Reminders About Homework: MUST be stapled on TOP RIGHT side of code NO handwritten work MUST have the following in the comment area at top of code: STUDENT NAME PROGRAM NAME PROGRAM DATE PROGRAM DESCRIPTION ASSIGNMENT NBR (from syllabus in the top comment section) ANY Assignment not meeting the above criteria will be returned ungraded. Corrected version WILL BE subject to late penalties as outlined in the syllabus. Also About the Homework: Returned papers and disks are alphabetized - please keep them that way If there is no red mark on a line on the Grade Sheet, that means that item does not apply to the assignment - your grade is not based on those items. Please use Courier or some other fixed-width font when printing. A cover page is NOT necessary First Exam is next week Highlights from Tutorial 2: TOE Charts Tasks - what will the program do? Objects - what objects (controls) will do the tasks? Events - what events will the objects (controls) fire? Sketching the User Interface Horizontal layout - buttons are stacked in a column in order of most likely use. Vertical layout - buttons are lined up in a row in order of most likely use. Designing the Graphical User Interface (GUI) Select appropriate font styles and sizes Select appropriate color Control the flow of focus by assigning access keys using the TabIndex property An access key allows a control to receive focus when you hold the "Alt" key and press the access letter. An access letter is underlined in the menu bar. Writing Visual Basic Equations Anything stored in a TextBox is a String. To use it as a number, convert it using the Val function A function is a procedure that returns a value The Val function returns the number represented by the String You can write You can format the appearance of a number using the Format function The Format function returns a String representatio of a number in the format you specify Currency, Fixed, Standard, Percent