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Introduction. PART I: Creating a Visual Basic 6 Program. Chapter 1: How Visual Basic Works. Chapter 2: Using the Visual Basic User Interface. Chapter 3: Designing Your First User Interface. Chapter 4: Writing Basic Code. PART II: Creating User Interfaces. Chapter 5: User Interface Design 101. Chapter 6: Forms and Buttons. Chapter 7: Boxes and Buttons for Making Choices. Chapter 8: Text Boxes for Typing and Showing Words. Chapter 9: Scroll Bars and Labels. Chapter 10: Pretty Pictures and Objects from Geometry. PART III: Making Menus. Chapter 11: Creating and Editing Pull-Down Menus. Chapter 12: Submenus, Growing Menus, and Pop-Up Menus. Chapter 13: Dialog Boxes. PART IV: The Basics of Writing Code. Chapter 14: Event Procedures. Chapter 15: Using Variables. Chapter 16: Responding to the User. Chapter 17: Math 101: Arithmetic, Logical, and Comparison Operators. Chapter 18: Strings and Things. Chapter 19: Defining Constants and Using Comments. Chapter 20: Killing Bugs. PART V: Making Decisions (Something you Stop Doing When You Get Married). Chapter 21: The If-Then and If-Then-Else Statements. Chapter 22: The Select Case Statement. PART VI: Getting Loopy. Chapter 23: The Do While and Do-Loop While Loops. Chapter 24: The Do Until and Do-Loop Until Loops. Chapter 25: For Next Loops That Can Count. Chapter 26: Nested Loops and Quick Exits. PART VII: Writing Subprograms (So You Don't Go Crazy All at Once). Chapter 27: General Procedures (Subprograms Tha Everyone Can Share). Chapter 28: Passing Arguments. Chapter 29: Functions, a Unique Type of Subprogram. Chapter 30: Getting Some Class with Object-Oriented Programming. Chapter 31: Managing Files. PART VIII: Database Files and Printing. Chapter 32: Creating Database Files. Chapter 33: Using Files from Database Programs You'd Rather Not Use. Chapter 34: Making Your Program Print Stuff. PART IX: The

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