This comprehensive yet easily understood text covers Visual Basic, the most popular programming language for the world's most popular Windows operation systems. Beginning with easy-to-learn design environments and computer programs that require no previous knowledge of the subject, each chapter of this book builds on the previous one, as the concepts and exercises become progressively more challenging; it introduces object-oriented programming slowly. Part I, The Environment, deals with setting up the language for ease of use; Part II, Programming, deals with common types of classes and methods; and Part III, Applications, combines the first two sections, emphasizing modular design and databases and allowing for the building of actual VB.NET applications.