Course detail
Programming for Manufacturing Systems
FSI-GPG Acad. year: 2019/2020 Summer semester
The course provides an overview of different groups of programming languages used in the manufacturing systems. These are procedural languages, object-oriented languages, languages for database and multimedia applications. The development trends in these groups are analysed. An example of each group is described in detail and trained practically – MS Access, SQL, Visual Basic .NET.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
4
Supervisor
Learning outcomes of the course unit
The students will acquire knowledge necessary to create applications for operation system Microsoft Windows using the programming language Visual Basic. They will know to connect these applications to databases and create user defined ActiveX objects as well.
Prerequisites
Students are expected to have basic knowledge of algorithm and programming, as well as basic knowledge of functions, objects and services offered by NT based operation systems.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures.
According to the possibility of teaching can be organized lectures for students by practitioners and excursions to companies focused on activities related to the course content.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Working out of a semester project
Aims
The aim of the course is to familiarise students with basic properties of object and event driven programming. Students will be cognizant of programming language Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and language SQL.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Attendance at practise lessons is obligatory and it is checked. Only substantial reasons of absence are accepted. Missed lessons can be substituted for via solution of extra exercises.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme M2I-P: Mechanical Engineering, Master's
branch M-VSR: Production Machines, Systems and Robots, elective (voluntary)
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Syllabus
1. Introduction to developing environment Visual Basic (VB) – Specifications, Limitations, and File Formats
2. Visual Basic Coding Conventions
3. Introduction to Variables, Constants and Data Types
4-5. Using ActiveX Controls
6. Creating ActiveX Components
7. Accessing DLLs and the Windows API
8-9. Interacting Visual Basic with Data in a Database
10. Interprocess communication under MS Windows
11-12.Visual Basic Script ; programming for WEB
13. Differences between Visual C++ and Visual Basic
seminars in computer labs
Computer-assisted exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introducing Visual Basic development environment
2. Working with ActiveX objects
3-4. Creating the simple application for text processing
5. Creating the simple application for working with graphics
6-7. Creating the application "Calculator"
8. Connection of application to database
9. Creating a simple application for working with database
10-12.Semester project
13. Delivery and presentation of the semester project