Visual Basic

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/visual-basic

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the primary developer?Microsoft Corporation
2. What is the original release year?1991
3. What is Visual Basic and why is it called a secret helper?Visual Basic is a computer language that lets you tell your computer what to do in a simple way. It helps people build programs quickly by using a visual design area where you can drag and drop parts of a screen.
4. How can I make a button that does something in Visual Basic?In Visual Basic, you can create a button on a form and write code that runs when the button is clicked. The program listens for the click event and then performs the action you wrote.

Event-Driven Programming: A programming paradigm where the flow of execution is determined by events such as user actions or system messages.
.NET Framework: A software framework developed by Microsoft that provides a large class library and supports multiple programming languages for building applications.
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP): A programming model based on the concept of 'objects,' which can contain data and code that manipulates the data.