WHAT I HAD TO DO: We had to create a program that would read the users

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WHAT I HAD TO DO: We had to create a program that would read the users

input, process it and display the results. HOW I CREATED THE PROGRAM:

For this tutorial I used lblrpompt, txttemperature, cmdctof, cmdftoc,

and cmdexit.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

INTRODUCTION

I have been asked to prepare a personal report that addresses my

approach to learning and provides a reflective account of my

experiences, of carrying out a series of programming activities. The

report that I will be creating is a reflection upon my collective and

collaborative activities, working in a group.

WEEK 3 INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING AND VISUAL BASIC

DIGITAL CLOCK

11th to 17th October

WHAT I HAD TO DO:

We had to interactively design a digital clock program. The program

had to be designed in a way for objects to respond to events.

HOW I CREATED THE PROGRAM

I used a label to display the system time in, as the requirement was

to program objects to respond to events.

I used a label called lblToday because labels are containers for

programs-generated messages. They have properties such as name,

caption, font etc. I defined my label with the name lblToday so that I

could show the correct date at the time at runtime by typing out the

instruction lblToday.Caption=Time$.

As the time would not change if I displayed the time on form_load I

had to find an object from the tool box which looked like a clock and

then I put it onto my form.

I then changed the interval property to 1000, this was to indicate

1000 milliseconds. I also did this for the default event for the time

object and then displayed the time in my label.

MY PROBLEMS AND HOW I OVERCAME THEN

Designing a digital clock program using visual basic was a very

challenging but interesting task for me as I had never come across

using visual basic. At first I found it a bit of a struggle to get

used the program and how to use it appropriately. Even though the

notes that were given were quite clear and when I read them I thought

that creating the program would be easy, however when I put the notes

into practice I found it quite hard. The task was quite confusing

especially the coding and getting it correct, because if there was

even a slight error the program would not run successfully. Another

problem I faced whilst designing this program was that when I put the

timer onto the form and ran the program the timer would not display

correctly. So in order to solve my problems I consulted my group and

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