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Assignment 1 – Usability of an Interface This is a report / assignment which will analyze, investigate and evaluate the usability of Visual Basic.NET interface. I will be putting myself in the position of a user of the interface. A user interface is a program that controls a display for the user (usually on a computer monitor) and that allows the user to interact with the system. Visual Basic.NET is the next generation of Visual basic, it’s the new upgrade from Visual Basic 6.0, which obviously is designed to be easier to use and more productive. Visual Basic can be used to develop windows based applications and games. From what I have heard from other students and lecturers visual basic is supposedly easier to learn than other languages like C++ and java but I can’t clarify this as I only know the basics so far. Up until now I haven’t had any previous experience with Visual Basic, I’ve just mainly heard about. I just know the basics of it from playing about with it so I guess you could say I fall into the novice section. This still gives me enough knowledge in order to analyze Visual Basic.NET, weigh up its good aspects and bad aspects, gives me an opportunity to express my views and justify them. Learnability