POS 408 Week 2 Individual: Home Utility Auditing Program

Assignment Preparation: Activities include watching the Lynda.com videos, independent student reading, and research.

• Watch "Declaring and Using Variables" of the Lynda.com "Visual Basic^® Essential Training" video.

Assignment: <<Note to instructor: Please make sure you customize the area shaded in red each time you teach this class, and remove comments in red before publishing>>

Design, implement, test, and debug a Visual Basic^® program to create a simple home utility auditing program.

The user should be able to do the following:

• Enter the cost per kilowatt-hour.
• Select a home appliance from a list of home appliances.

• <<Refrigerator>>
• <<TV>>
• <<Space Heater>>
• <<Fan>>
• <<Dryer>>
• <<Oven>>

• Enter the power needed in kilowatts (kW) for the selected appliance.
• Enter the number of hours used per day for the selected appliance.

The program should do the following:

• Validate that the data entered has the correct format and is within a reasonable range.
• Calculate and display the cost for operating a home appliance as soon as the data is entered.

Design a GUI for the program that will be intuitive for a novice user.

Write the code for the program and test the results.

Zip the files of the project together.

Submit the zipped file.