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Preface xix
Before You Begin xxix
1 Introduction to Computers, the Internet and
Visual Basic 1
2 Dive Into® Visual Studio Express 2012 for
Windows Desktop 26
3 Introduction to Visual Basic Programming 59
4 Introduction to Problem Solving and
Control Statements 101
5 Problem Solving and Control Statements:
Part 2 146
6 Methods 188
7 Arrays 238
8 Files 286
9 Object-Oriented Programming:
Classes and Objects 312
10 Object-Oriented Programming:
Inheritance and Polymorphism 352
11 Introduction to LINQ 382
12 Databases and LINQ 399
13 Web App Development with ASP.NET 446
14 Windows Forms GUI: A Deeper Look 498
15 Graphics and Multimedia 554
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viii Brief Contents

Online Chapters 597

A Operator Precedence Chart 598
B Primitive Types 600
C Number Systems 601
D ASCII Character Set 613
E Unicode® 614
F Creating Console Applications 625
Index 629

Companion Website Online Content

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16 Exception Handling: A Deeper Look 16-1
17 Strings and Characters: A Deeper Look 17-1
18 Files and Streams: A Deeper Look 18-1
19 XML and LINQ to XML 19-1
20 Windows 8 UI 20-1
21 Windows 8 Graphics and Multimedia 21-1
22 Windows Phone 8 Case Study 22-1
23 Introduction to Concurrency:
Async and Await 23-1
24 Web App Development with ASP.NET:
A Deeper Look 24-1
25 Web Services 25-1
26 Windows Azure™ Cloud Computing Case Study 26-1
27 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) GUI 27-1
28 WPF Graphics and Multimedia 28-1
29 Data Structures and Generic Collections 29-1
30 ATM Case Study, Part 1:
Object-Oriented Design with the UML 30-1
31 ATM Case Study, Part 2:
Implementing an Object-Oriented Design 31-1
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Contents
Chapters 16–31 are PDF documents posted online at the book’s Companion Website
(located at www.pearsonhighered.com/deitel/).

Preface xvii
Before You Begin xxxi
1 Introduction to Computers, the Internet and
Visual Basic 1
1.1 Introduction 2
1.2 Hardware and Moore’s Law 2
1.3 Data Hierarchy 3
1.4 Computer Organization 5
1.5 Machine Languages, Assembly Languages and High-Level Languages 7
1.6 Object Technology 8
1.7 Internet and World Wide Web 10
1.8 Visual Basic 11
1.8.1 Object-Oriented Programming 12
1.8.2 Event-Driven Programming 12
1.8.3 Visual Programming 12
1.8.4 Internet and Web Programming 13
1.8.5 Other Key Contemporary Programming Languages 13
1.9 Microsoft’s .NET 14
1.9.1 .NET Framework 14
1.9.2 Common Language Runtime 14
1.10 Microsoft’s Windows® Operating System 14
1.11 Windows Phone 8 for Smartphones 16
1.11.1 Selling Your Apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace 16
1.11.2 Free vs. Paid Apps 16
1.11.3 Testing Your Windows Phone Apps 17
1.12 Windows Azure™ and Cloud Computing 17
1.13 Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment 17
1.14 Test-Driving the Visual Basic Advanced Painter App in Visual Studio 2012 18

2 Dive Into® Visual Studio Express 2012 for

Windows Desktop 26
2.1 Introduction 27