VB Jumping Button Game - Visual Basic VB.Net Beginners Tutorial

In this beginner's lesson we fully explain the VB.Net Development Environment and show you how to create a quick and easy Visual Basic Jumping Button Game, which can be used to learn the fundamentals of the Label, Button, and Picture Box Objects.

At the end of the Lesson are two "Challenge Tasks" where you can test your mastery and learning for this lesson.

This lesson will be useful to anyone beginning to learn VB.Net for the purpose of creating Games or Business Applications.

This is a long lesson, and so we recommend you use the YouTube "Tools Cog" on the player bar to watch it at a speed of 1.5x or even 1.75x.

If you are a Teacher watching this video we suggest you click the downloads link below and get the lesson materials for your students.
Give these resources to your students and we think you will find that some of them will "get it" very quickly.
The other students need to watch this video which goes through everything in full detail slowly step by step with repetition of examples.

This is a detailed video, if you want to fast track learning about Labels, Buttons, and Picture Boxes, then just Download and quickly read through the PDF of the Presentation using the Link given further down below.

There is also a downloadable Word Document giving all of the Form Designs as well as the Full Program Code that goes behind each Form. If you already have VB.Net experience and want to make the App quickly, then just use this "no frills" Word document.

Then for anything you do not fully understand in these two documents, simply use the Timeline Index below to go and watch the relevant section of Video explanation.

If you have the time it will be extremely beneficial to watch the entire video to maximize learning outcomes.

VIDEO TIMELINE INDEX:

(Click on the time number to jump to that section of the video).

00:00 to 00:30 Introduction
00:30 to 01:27 Preview of Finished Program
01:27 to 03:05 Lesson Contents List
03:05 to 04:16 Installing VB.Net Free Community Version
04:16 to 05:16 Creating a New VB.Net Windows Forms Project
05:16 to 07:57 How to "Save All" for the new VB.Net Project
07:57 to 12:10 The Folder and File Structure of a VB.Net Project
12:10 to 22:42 Using the IDE to place Toolbox Objects onto the Screen Form
12:10 to 22:42 Modifying the Properties of Label, Button, and Picture Box Objects
22:42 to 24:10 The fully completed VB.Net Screen Form
24:10 to 27:48 Adding the Mouse Enter Event to the Button
27:48 to 32:39 The VB.Net Form X and Y Coordinates System
32:39 to 36:45 Using Pseudocode to Design the Program Processing Logic
36:45 to 40:18 Creating the Visual Basic Program Code for our Application
40:18 to 42:28 Running the Program and Creating the .exe Stand Alone Application
42:28 to 44:14 Re-open a saved and closed Project using the .sln shortcut file
44:14 to 45:35 Challenge Task 1
45:35 to 49:00 Challenge Task 2
49:00 to 49:49 Our Website VB.Net Games Programming Course
49:49 to 50:14 Video Wrap Up and Outro

This video will be useful for anyone learning Computing, especially students doing VCE Computing or VCE Software Development or HSC Computing high school courses in Australia, and GCSE in the UK.

Check with your Teacher or Instructor before getting any Downloads from our Website, as they may already have these materials for you.

You can download a hard copy of this Presentation, all of the required Images and the Full Program Code at the following link:

Check with your Teacher or Instructor first, as they may already have these Download materials for you.

You can check out our full VB.Net Games Programming Course at the following link:

We are planning to make a number of Programming Videos that will be a great course for people to learn how to program Games in Visual Basic.

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