How Do You Write Basic Computer Programs?
Computer programs are designed by programmers for a variety of uses, usually to automate manual tasks that take a long time to complete. An apartment billing program, for example, eliminates manual computation of dues for a particular resident by automatically calculating how much the renter owes at the time of billing. The program handles the calculation by giving instructions to the computer on what to compute, how much, and when. Writing a basic computer program is very easy to do. In this example, you will write a program that displays the total of two numbers inputted by a user. Start Visual Basic 6 on your computer. Create a new project by clicking “Standard EXE” from the “New Project” dialog box. Click “Open” to display a “New Form”. This is where you are going to design the user interface. Click and drag the appropriate controls from the “Toolbox” on the left into the “Form” on the center of the window. You will need two “TextBox” controls, three “Label” controls, and a “Comman
