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\"An introduction to programming with Small Basic, the free programming language for beginners based on BASIC and created by Microsoft. Covers topics like storing and manipulating data with variables; processing user input to make interactive programs; if/else statements; loops; and subroutines. Each chapter includes practice examples\"-- Provided by publisher.

As computing has become an integral part of our world, demand for teaching computational thinking in K-12 has increased. One of its basic competences is programming, often taught by learning activities without a predefined solution using block-based visual programming languages. Automatic assessment tools can support teachers with their assessment and grading as well as guide students throughout their learning process. Although being already widely used in higher education, it remains unclear if such approaches exist for K-12 computing education. Thus, in order to obtain an overview, we performed a systematic mapping study. We identified 14 approaches, focusing on the analysis of the code created by the students inferring computational thinking competencies related to algorithms and programming. However, an evident lack of consensus on the assessment criteria and instructional feedback indicates the need for further research to support a wide application of computing education in K-12 schools.

The simulation of physical processes using the example of the movement of a body on dependence of the angle to the horizon using the graphical capabilities of the Visual Basic programming language. A new expression has been proposed, that allows one determine the throwing angle of a body at a given initial speed and target coordinates. The created program consists of three parts. The first part is designed to simulate movement based on the entered initial velocity and throwing angle. The second part allows determine the throwing angle for given v 0, x , y . In the third part is possible to observe the body (projectile) hitting the target. A specific aspect of the proposed program is that the user can independently perform, observe, compare and draw conclusions in a short time. The program can be used for independent studying and teaching of physics.

Low molecular weight heparins are complex polycomponent drugs that have recently become amenable to top-down analysis using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Even using open source deconvolution software, DeconTools, and automatic structural assignment software, GlycReSoft, the comparison of two or more low molecular weight heparins is extremely time-consuming, taking about a week for an expert analyst and provides no guarantee of accuracy. Efficient data processing tools are required to improve analysis. This study uses the programming language of Microsoft Excel™ Visual Basic for Applications to extend its standard functionality for macro functions and specific mathematical modules for mass spectrometric data processing. The program developed enables the comparison of top-down analytical glycomics data on two or more low molecular weight heparins. The current study describes a new program, GlycCompSoft, which has a low error rate with good time efficiency in the automatic processing of large data sets. The experimental results based on three lots of Lovenox®, Clexane® and three generic enoxaparin samples show that the run time of GlycCompSoft decreases from 11 to 2 seconds when the data processed decreases from 18000 to 1500 rows.

In 2015, Rougier and Hinsen launched ReScience C, a journal that documents researchers' attempts to replicate computational methods published by other authors, based only on the original articles and their own freshly written open-source code. (The oldest scientific code in the challenge, described in an as-yet-unpublished paper submitted to ReScience C, was a 28-year-old program written in Pascal for visualizing water-quality data.) Thirty-two years later, Rougier no longer remembers precisely how the code, with its arcane Applesoft BASIC instructions, works - \"which is weird, because I wrote it\". [...]because the Apple II pre-dates both USB cables and the Internet - and because modern computers cannot directly talk to old disk drives - Rougier needed some custom hardware, not to mention a box of vintage floppies, to allow the computer to load the code. In 1996, Sabino Maggi, now a computational physicist at the Italian National Research Council's Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research in Bari, used the computer language Fortran to model a superconducting device called a Josephsonjunction, processing the results with Microsoft Visual Basic.

Software engineers often compare programming languages. Several programming languages are designed, specified, and implemented every year in order to accommodate changing programming paradigms, hardware evolution, and other changes. In a comparative study of Python, Visual Basic.Net (VB.NET), C++, and Java, we examine machine learning capabilities of these four programming languages. This field of study focuses on computers that learn from experience and use information to become more efficient. As a general rule, it falls under the realm of computing. The process of machine learning entails analyzing samples of data to develop a model that can make predictions without any explicit programming. ML models and frameworks have evolved into increasingly complex models along with machine learning (ML). A number of emerging technologies are becoming increasingly important as software machine learning advances, such as Python, C++, VB.NET, and Java. Comparing these languages can reveal several characteristics.

An important segment of the reliability-based optimization problems is to get access to the sensitivity derivatives. However, since the failure probability is not a closed-form function of the input variables, the derivatives are not explicitly computable and rather require a full reliability analysis which is computationally expensive. In this paper, a step-by-step algorithm has been presented to calculate the derivatives of the probability of failure and safety index with respect to the input parameters based on the advanced first-order second-moment (AFOSM) reliability method. The proposed algorithm is then implemented in a spreadsheet using Visual Basic for Application (VBA) programming language. Two geotechnical and structural examples are then presented to examine the program and describe the modeling procedure. The robustness of the proposed method is examined using a Gaussian random perturbation. The capability of the proposed method in the calculation of the sensitivity derivatives of the model uncertainty is explained in a separate section. Finally, the proposed model has been compared to the forward finite difference (FFD) method and the results are validated.

This research work ascertained the effect of Visual Basic (VBasic) Programming Instructional Delivery using Web-Based Tools on Students’ Interest and Academic Achievement in Universities in Nigeria. The purpose of the study is to determine the effect of Visual Basic (VBasic) Programming Instructional Delivery using Web-Based Tools on Students’ Interest and Academic Achievement in Universities in Nigeria. The study embraced a quasi-experimental research design. The respondent for this study comprised 74 students in year two of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndu-ufu Alike and Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki. For the fact that the population is small and manageable, the entire population were studied. Researchers used VBasic Programming Achievement Test (VBPAT) instrument developed to collect data. Visual Basic Achievement Test contained 50-item questions with letter A to D options for each interest scale were used for data collection. The reliability was tested using Cronbach’s Alpha. To ensure consistency and integrity, lecturers in the study area. The researchers trained the lecturers on how to distribute the instrument for both the experiment and control groups in order to ensure homogeneous instruction. The lecturers taught the experimental group using the utilization of a web-based approach and the control group using the conventional approach. Scores generated from the experimental test using Visual Basic programming Achievement Test (V + B + PAT), were analysed using mean and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) for answering research questions and to test hypotheses respectively at 0.5 level of significance with the aid of statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 20. The outcome of this study on research question on influence of location on the students’ academic achievement mean gain in Vbasic programming language when taught using web-based tool, showed that with the use of web-based tool in the instructional delivery of VBasic programming language brought about better improvement in students’ academic achievement. Furthermore, the outcomes of hypothesis tested showed that location is significant source of different in mean achievement scores for students taught with Visual Basic Programming language using web-based approach and visual basic programming using conventional approach. This study has implications for facilitators, learners, curriculum planners, ministries in Education among others. This study found out among others that the facilitators use web-based tools in distance education for quiz, assessment, examinations, and instructional delivery of Vbasic programming language to a less extent in Nigerian Universities. It was concluded therefore, that conventional method is less effective than web-based approach in improving student’s achievement in Visual Basic Programming. Hence Nigerian Universities should adopt the use of web-based approach in computer programming lecturers.