DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL

EDUCATION ANDHRA PRADESH

Name : K SREE RAMACHARYULU
Designation : LECTURER
Branch : Commercial & Comp. Practice
Institute : Govt. Polytechnic, SRIKAKULAM
Year / Semester :V
Subject : Visual Basic-I
Subject Code : CCP-503
Topic : Programming Fundamentals
Duration : 50 mts
Sub. Topic : Types of arrays
Teaching Aids : Animation Clips & Images, MS-Office
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 OBJECTIVES

On completion of this period you would be

able to learn
 The different types of arrays
 Samples programs on Arrays

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 RECAP

In the previous sessions you learned about

the fundamental concepts like
 Definition of an Array

 Declaration of array

 Properties of an array

 Kinds of Arrays in VB etc.,

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TYPES OF ARRAYS
Arrays are basically two types in the VB 6.0
1. Fixed size Arrays: which always remains the
same size

2. Dynamic Arrays: Whose size can change at run

time.

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 FIXED SIZE ARRAYS

 The memory allocation stays the same till the end of

program’s running

 Advantage is that the memory is set aside at the

beginning of the program

 During the execution of a program there is no risk of

facing the extra memory or out of memory

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Types of Arrays on the basis of nature
of data
 Data to be stored in an array may be a single
group or in several groups.
 Based on the nature of data, arrays may be
1. Single Dimensional Array: Only one dimension
Ex: Salaries of a set of employees ages of
students of a class
2. Multi Dimensional Array: means more than one
dimension.
Ex.: Salaries of employees of different departments
Names of students of different classes

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SINGLE DIMENSIONAL ARRAY

Continuous Memory allocation to the array.

For Ex. In order to maintain List of ages of 10 3rd year
CCP students,
the array should be as follows.
Dim Age_List (10) as integer
Where Age_List is name of the array and 10 is the size of the
array..
Age_List(0) is the location to store first student Age.
Age_List(1) is for second student
……
so on
Age_List(9) is for 10th student.
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PROGRAM-SD ARRAY- DESIGN

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CODE WINDOW

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STEPS - PROGRAM DESIGN AND CODING
 Open a new Standard EXE project in design mode

 Change its name property as “Frmagelist”, its caption

property as “Application on Single Dimensional Array”

 Place one command button on the form and change its

caption property as “&Accept Ages of Students” and its
name property as “CmdAgeList”.

 Place another command button, alter its name property

as “CmdExit” and Caption property as “E&xit”

 Double-click on this command button then, VB will

display the code editor window and type the following
code in that code window
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Private Sub CmdAgeList_Click()

Dim AgeList(10) As Integer

Dim I As Integer Declares array and variable
Dim Res As Integer

For I = 0 To 9
Res = InputBox("Enter agesof student :”) Asks data and
stores in array
AgeList(I) = Res
For i=0 to 9
Next I Shows data on
Print age list (I)
screen with print
Next I statement
End Sub

Private Sub CmdExit_Click() Ends the

End program
End Sub

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 Save this program as .frmAgelist into your personal folder.

 Now run this application by click run command button at Run

menu

 Then click on Accept “Accept Ages of Students” command

button.

 Then the VB will accept List of ages of 10 Nos students one by

one.

 You will observe the input box will accept the Ages of 10
Students till the control lies in the For- Next loop

 Close the running application, and save it if we required

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 Program to find the average salary of 10 employee and the
number of employees drawing salary higher than average
salary

 STEPS :
 Open a form
 Put a command button on form and change its
name to “CmdAvg” and its caption to “More than
average salary”.

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 Write the following code to click-event of
“Cmdavg”.
private Cmdavg-click ()
Dim salary (10) as long
Dim I as integer
Dim sum, Avg as long
Sum =0
Avg =0
For I =0 TO 9
Salary (I) =Input box (“give salary” ).
Sum = Sum + Salary (I)
Next I
Avg =sum/10
For I= 0TO 9
If salary (I) >Avg than print salary (I)
End if
Next I
End sub
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 SUMMARY

In this session you have learnt

 the concept of an Array

 Definition of an Array

 Types of an Array

 Programs using single dimensional arrays

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

1. Define an Array? How will you declare a single

dimensional array in VB?

2. List the different types of arrays?

3. Write a Program to accept the ages of N no.of

students and then print on to the form.

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 QUIZ

1. What is the main purpose array?

A. Data security
B. Information Security
C. Data Storage
D. Data binding

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2. Which is the property of an array?

A. Size
B. Subscript
C. Length
D. Elements

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3. An array can store any number of values
(True/False)

Ans: True

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 Assignment

1. Write a program that asks the numbers and sorts

them in ascending order

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