The course is designed to provide an introduction to programming in business environment. It assumes the students with no prior programming experience and using a simplified learn-by-example approach that stresses top-down design and modular structured programming. The first part of the class will cover the basic principle of programming in general and language-independent terms, and then discuss how the programming construct in question is implemented in a specific language such as Visual Basic. The second part will emphasise on building a business application using the Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools.