Any VB2010 programmers here?

I'm trying to make a math program to help my daughter with her home schooling, but I've run into a snag... anyone have a good coding background in VB2010?

 

what's the question?

 

That's not a question.. that's a programming language. I'm looking for what, in particular, is the question... where is he stuck in programming the app?

 

post what you're trying to do (want) and the code you have written (have) and I'll take a look.

 

Here is how it works (and/or how I would like it to work)
It will produce simple math problems add, subtract, multiply, and divide. (My daughter is still young) I want the problems to be random but only numbers between 0-12
example 0x2, 1+12, 12+12 and so on. I have the adding subtracting and multiplying down, but I can't figure out how to make the division work properly.
Then I also what to make a counter that tells right and wrong answers but also splits them up in to sub categories as well (add, subtract, multiply, divide) I can do a single counter but multiple counters confuse me.

I have some background in programming I'm currently in school going for a AS in programming, but i'm still wet behind the ears so to speak :/

I'll post the code that i have

I don't want a written program just some suggestions

 

first and foremost I honestly did this in a matter of 10 minutes or so. I know I shouldn't have used the values of a textbox property for this but I was kinda being rushed at the time. In the next day or so I'm going to redo it using variables then change them to string.

My main plan is to use this for testing purposes on my daughter until we start buying the Saxon math books. After that I mayl add some graphic and color to make a game out of it for her.



Public Class Form1

Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
End
End Sub

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

' If solution is right show picture if wrong beep

If solution1.Text = Val(topNbr.Text) + Val(bottomNbr.Text) Then
R.Text = R.Text + 1
Correct.Text = "GOOD JOB!"
Timer1.Enabled = True
Else
W.Text = W.Text + 1
Correct.Text = "Nope try again"
Timer1.Enabled = True
Beep()
End If
solution1.Text = ""
rndnmbrs()
End Sub

Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
rndnmbrs()
Button2.Visible = False
End Sub
Private Sub rndnmbrs()
topNbr.Text = CStr(Int(Rnd() * 10)) ' Pick number
bottomNbr.Text = CStr(Int(Rnd() * 10))
End Sub

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
Correct.Text = ""
End Sub

End Class


Another thing... I had to put the timer in to erase the text " Good Job" and " Try again" because it would delete it to fast for the eye to see. does anyone know another way I could do this? I'm thinking it would be a matter of placement of the text but I'm not sure.

 

OK,
can't spend much time delving into this, but a couple of thoughts, programming wise. Change the name of your buttons to describe what they do. "Button1", "Button2", are hard to make sense when showing code to others.

Do you have a button for "Next Problem"? One button should be able to handle the check answer, next problem or re-do problem. key the text "good job", etc. off of that event.
So you have your form, she enters the solution and clicks "Check Answer" If it's correct you show "GOOD JOB" and change the text of the button to "NEXT". If she's wrong display "Try Again" and change the button text to "Try Again".

if the numbers to be calculated and the operation are a all generated use label fields to prevent anyone from entering their own.
label - operand1 --left number
label - operand2 -- right number
label - operation -- +,-,/,*

I like the idea, an my need to do this for my daughter and son.

 

I know My Programming teacher would give me crap too for this lol but I was in a bit of a hurry while it was still fresh in my mind.

Now that you made me feel guilty, I'm going to sit down and do it right

Here is what is on the form designer:
topNbr is the top number of the math problem
BottomNmr is the bottom number
Sgn is the Sign (add sub multiply divide)
Eql is the equal sign
Solution1 is the answer textbox

the forum has 3 buttons Exit, Answer, and Start
Exit = Button3
Answer = Button1
Start = Button2

4 labels on the form for my counters
Label1 = Right answers
Label2 = Wrong answers
R = Right (value changes)
W = Wrong (value changes)

With out taking a Screen shot of the form it looks like this.
_________________________________________________________________

Label1 ----> Right Wrong <--- Label2
0 0
TopNbr

Sgn BottomNbr
________________<----Eql

Solution1

Button3<---Exit Button1<---Answer Button2<----Start
_________________________________________________________________

I am rather ashamed of this program. I know it is rather crude looking and I know I can do a lot better, but I guess you could call it a rough draft... It's a bad habit I have to make a quick program and then redo it later once my idea is working.
I like to see these little programs as gaining more programming time for me, instead of just building the final product. (they help me get used to using the software by repetition)

 

I'm not sure if it's O.K. to do so but am I a loud to post the actual program files here? Maybe someone else might want to build off these ideas... then again if they did they could just copy and paste to VB or another language for that matter. Still, I wouldn't mind in the least to post the finish program here for others to use for the same purpose I am.

 

See if this helps you. You'd have to complete the sub-routines for multiplication/division.

VB Helper: HowTo: Make an addition and subtraction quiz for younger kids in Visual Basic .NET

You could also modify this somewhat:
Basic math by Mada

Do you have an Android device (e.g. Kindle Fire)? The reason I ask is that I have the exact app you're trying to build on my android tablet (it was free). I have 4 or 5 of these learning apps on there that tricks my 4 year old into learning.

 

I personally prefer the more OOP approach.
I would build a class that handles the generation of the math question.
1. randomize 2 numbers in a range from 0-12
3. store those numbers in a dictionary
4. Randomly select one of the operand chars
5. store that in a public property
6. evaluate the expression using a case statement.
if operand is X do multiply of both numbers, store result so you can compare answer given.

This way, every time you say "new question", you create a new MathQuestionGenerator object with all the stuff you need and you just compare the answers entered to the answer calculated.

 

Oooooh, requirements....I love requirements.

I agree with UGRev conceptually on creating a class.

I would have a few changes:

1) Allow user to choose which branch of arithmetic they can work on (e.g., addition) but also allow them to choose 'random' which will randomly select for them.
2) Keep track of correct answers and after 3, give them a gold star.
3) Have a difficulty level (e.g., easy, medium, hard) that would take the first random number into account when selecting the second. Perhaps 'hard' would limit the numbers to >5.

 

WOW, as this "simple" question on coding has quickly spun into a full fledged OOP program that can be easily upgraded, but has increased the complexety. Such is life as a coder

 

Hey, if you're going to program OOP, program OOP prOOPerly

 

O.k.... I'm know where near done but I would like some input. should I or wouldn't it be easier to make separate subs for adding, subtracting, ect..?
Example Private Sub Addition Private Sub Subtraction


That being said here is what I have so far (only addition next subtraction)


' Program Name: Math Test 101
' Programmer: Bruce
' Program Help: Survival Monkeys
' Date: 3/13/2012
' Description: This program tests the users math skills with addition, subtraction
' multiplacation, and division.

Public Class Form1
Private SolutionTotalInteger, TopNumberInteger, BottomNumberInteger, RightInteger, WrongInteger As Integer

Private Sub StartButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles StartButton.Click
' Initialize the program.
RoundNumbers()
StartButton.Enabled = False ' Disable Start button.
End Sub
Private Sub RoundNumbers()
' Randomizes TopNumber and BottomNumber.
TopNumberInteger = Int(Rnd() * 12)
BottomNumberInteger = Int(Rnd() * 12)
TopNumberLabel.Text = TopNumberInteger.ToString("N0")
BottomNumberLabel.Text = BottomNumberInteger.ToString("N0")

End Sub
Private Sub AnswerButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles AnswerButton.Click
' Calulate values

Try
SolutionTotalInteger = Integer.Parse(SolutionTextBox.Text)
If SolutionTotalInteger = TopNumberInteger + BottomNumberInteger Then
RightInteger += 1
AnswerLabel.Text = "Good Job!"
Else
WrongInteger += 1
AnswerLabel.Text = "Sorry Wrong Answer"
Beep()
End If
RightAnswerLabel.Text = RightInteger.ToString("N0")
WrongAnswerLabel.Text = WrongInteger.ToString("N0")
AnswerLabelTimer.Enabled = True
SolutionTextBox.Clear()
RoundNumbers()
Catch ex As Exception

End Try
End Sub

Private Sub ClearButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ClearButton.Click
' Clears Solution TexBox.

With SolutionTextBox
.Clear()
.Focus()
End With
End Sub

Private Sub ExitButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ExitButton.Click
' Terminates the program

Me.Close()
End Sub

Private Sub AnswerLabelTimer_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles AnswerLabelTimer.Tick
' Clear AnswerLabel.

AnswerLabel.Text = ""
End Sub



Still need to finish the catch statement and delete the ClearButton_Click method other than that it works good counter and all ^^
Feel free to pick it apart and tell me a better way to do something.

 

Command Pattern: Command Design Pattern in C# and VB.NET.
Take a look at the sample calc code on that site. It's at the bottom in the sample code section.

This demonstrates how to execute an operation based on the operand given.

 

If you click the "Show Code" for VB.Net it brings up a program to buy or download :/

 

click the one above that Real world example is what it's labeled