Introducing Programming In The AIS Course: Creating And Coding An Expert System Using Visual Basic.NET

Abstract

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a stand-alone, introductory tutorial exercise that can be used to give AIS students a very basic understanding of Visual Basic.NET.  The tutorial demonstrates Visual Basic.NET in the context of developing a simple expert system to evaluate loans, thus giving the student exposure to expert systems concepts and design as well.  This paper provides a discussion of the potential reasons for including an introduction to programming in the AIS course, gives more detail about the tutorial and provides guidance for its use in the classroom.