Increasingly, programmers are needing to make the transition from procedural languages (e.g. Visual Basic) to object-oriented languages like Java. In this workshop, we will (briefly!) cover some of the more important conceptual differences between such development methodologies, and introduce a 'real world' example to demonstrate how a programmer models such a system with objects

This workshop is specifically targeted to Visual Basic programmers and attempts to help bridge concepts from the VB world into the Java and OO world. Additionally, we will introduce the WebSphere Studio family of tooling to provide a comparable environment to what VB developers may be used to.

• Java Overview
• Java vs. Visual Basic
• Object-oriented Concepts
• Practicum: Video Store
• Tool Demonstration