IF YOU ARE A NOVICE PROGRAMMER, this book iS designed for you. The text begins with an overview of the Visual Basic development environment, its important charac- teristics, and how the environment can be manipulated to suit your needs. Next, a discussion of forms and their uses ensues. This discussion is followed by cover- age of the Visual Basic controls, which are most essential to scientific program- ming. You then learn how to put controls to work by making use of the different control events. Once this introductory material has been covered, I show you the different data types that...