CS 230 Fall 2009

Assignment 1 –Simple GUI  

100 points

Assigned: 09/04/2009

Due: 09/14/2009 at the start of class

Pre-Lab (Do Before Lab):  Bring materials – a way to save a copy for you and a copy to turn in. Plan out tasks, objects, and events needed for program.

Main Assignment:

Imagine that you are writing a very basic program for a beginner learning Spanish (we’re just starting out!).  Imagine that they will have buttons for “Red”, “Blue”, and “Green”, plus an “Exit” and a “Clear” button. The color buttons should cause the corresponding Spanish word to be displayed on the screen, with the corresponding color as the background color for the word. The clear button should leave no word showing and a white background. The Exit button should exit the application. 

Background Knowledge:

• Spanish words for colors are:
• Red – rojo
• Blue – azul
• Green – verde

Task Details:

• To use colors without using RGB values you can use Color.Red (for example)
• MAKE SURE YOUR PROGRAM WORKS!  - it doesn’t have to just run, it needs to run correctly!

Miscellaneous:

• You must turn on Option Strict and Option Explicit
• Put YOUR NAME, e-mail address, date, and purpose of the program in comments at the beginning of the program. The purpose should be what the program is supposed to do, not the learning goals. Comments are indicated with a single quote (everything after the single quote is only for humans)
• You MUST include comments that explain your program in order to get full credit.
• Name all textboxes and buttons meaningfully, and use conventions for starting their names.
• Make any textboxes that user should never enter a value in “Read Only” (or use labels instead!)
• Put your name on the form as a Label or as part of the form title.
• Try to use good user interface design. Make clear what user needs to do and what the answers mean.
• The control where you place the words will be easier to find and click on etc if you turn the AutoSize property to false and size it yourself.
• This program is not designed to be anywhere near as complicated as the color game application in the book.

Hand in:

• Compressed (zipped) folder with your entire project containing all files related to the project, submitted to Blackboard. 
• Print out of your code.