Chapter 7. DATA PROCESSING WITH VISUAL BASIC
In this chapter, you will learn the "meat and potatoes" of programming. Although Visual Basic will be the language of choice, almost every concept learned in this chapter can be applied to other programming languages. Therefore, when you master this chapter's information on data types, mathematical operators, and comparison operators, you will be prepared to learn the basics of virtually any programming language that exists.
The highlights of this chapter include the following:
Data appears in many different forms.
The way that your program processes data depends on the data type.
The mathematical operators enable you to perform calculations in Visual Basic.
The comparison operators enable you to compare ...
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