The files that will appear on this page for downloading will come in a variety of different formats. The file's extension will usually give you a clue as to what to expect when you download it. Smaller files can be downloaded to a floppy diskette -- make certain you have room for the file on your floppy. For larger files, you may need access to a fixed disk.
If the file has an extension of EXE, it is an executable program. This means that, after you download the file, you need to run it. At least 3 ways to do this come to mind:
- Click on the Windows Task Bar Start button. Choose Run. Then either enter the downloaded file's name and location or select Browse to search for it. And, finally, click Okay to execute the program.
- Click on the Windows task Bar Start button. Choose Programs. Then choose Windows Explorer. Navigate through your files until you locate the file you downloaded. Double click on this file to execute it.
- Click on the Windows task Bar Start button. Choose Programs. Choose MS DOS Prompt. Change to the drive and directory containing the file you downloaded. Then enter the name of the downloaded file to execute it.
In this course, I anticipate downloading two different types of executable files:
- Executable versions of Visual Basic projects. These will have been created by choosing File then Make from the Visual Basic menu. Such programs may be executed on any PC running Windows 95.
- Zipped versions of Visual Basic projects. As you know (or will learn), each Visual Basic project is composed of several files. In order to facilitate distribution of such files (and to save a little space), all the files in the Visual Basic project are combined in one executable self-extracting Zip file. When you execute that file, the original files are extracted to your disk. Once they have been extracted, you should be able to load the project into Visual Basic Version 5.0 so you may examine it and/or make changes to it.
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Download material
Click here to download a zipped file containing a project to determine the largest, smallest and average of a list of numeric values. Note, once you down load the fime MinMaxAvg.zip, you must then unzip it. PKZip for Windows will allow you to do this. You can obtain PKZip by clicking on the link above.
And, click here to download a zipped file containing a project to accept N numbers and then display them in reverse order. This file must also be unzipped before you can get at the project and form files.