VB CS1 Lesson 4 Vocabulary
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- Caption
- when Caption follows a period it indicates that the value to the right of the assignment operator will be assigned to the Caption property of the label.
- Assignment operator
- (=) Assigns the value to the right of the operator to the item to the left of the operator.
- Operators
- Symbols that perform specific operations in Visual Basic statements.
- Val function
- Takes numbers that are in a text format and returns a numeric value that can be used in calculations.
- Line-continuation character
- Tells the compiler to skip to the next line and treat the text there as if it were a part of the same line.
- Modulus
- Returns the remainder of integer division.
- Unary minus
- Using the subtraction operator to perform negation (making a positive value negative or making a negative value positive).
- Hard-coded
- Refers to information that is entered directly into the source code and cannot change while the program runs.
- Integers
- all positive and negative whole numbers, including zero.
- Text
- when Text follows the period it accesses the values entered by the user in the text boxes.
- Text boxes
- The fields placed on dialog boxes and in other windows that allow the user to enter a value.
- Label control
- Used to place text on a form.
- Integer division
- Returns only the whole number portion of division of integers.
- Truncation
- The process of removing everything to the right of the decimal point.
- Fix function
- Returns a truncated whole number after a calculation is performed.