Objective:

This assignment is designed to learn programming in VB.NET.

Questions:

(2 marks) In Visual Studio, create a VB.NET Console Application that does the following:

Create three variables of String data type, called firstName, lastName, and fullName respectively;

Assign your first name to the variable firstName;

Assign your last name to the variable lastName;

Concatenate the variable firstName, a string containing a space (i.e., ), the variable lastName together, and then assign the result to the variable fullName;

Display your name in the console window using the statement Console.WriteLine(fullName)

(3 marks) In Visual Studio, create a VB.NET Console Application that does the following:

Create a variable of Integer data type, called marks;

Create a variable of String data type, called grade;

Assign 88 to marks;

Convert marks into grade as follows using the Select-Case statement:

marks	grade
90-100	A+
85-89	A
80-84	A-
77-79	B+
73-76	B
70-72	B-
67-69	C+
63-66	C
60-62	C-
50-59	D
0-49	F

(5) Display the values of marks and grade in the console window using the statements

Console.WriteLine(marks)

Console.WriteLine(grade)

(2 marks) Repeat Question 2 using the If-Then-ElseIf statement (instead of the Select-Case statement). Your output should be exactly the same as that of Question 2.

(3 marks) In Visual Studio, create a VB.NET Console Application that uses the While loop to display all leap years between 2017 and 2050. A leap year between 2017 and 2050 is a year that is an integer multiple of 4 (i.e., year Mod 4 = 0). For example, 2020 and 2040 are leap years. (Hint: you need both the While and If-Then statements.)

For each question, print the program and handwrite the output at the end of the printout of the program.