Course detail

Application Software

FP-APVAcad. year: 2025/2026

The course focuses mainly on creating projects and programs in the Visual Basic for Application development environment of MS Excel. The content of the course is teaching the VBA programming language in the MS EXCEL environment in order to acquire basic knowledge and principles of programming and skills in creating simple form programs or custom functions.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

Basic knowledge of MS Excel from secondary school and high school curriculum

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

To obtain a graded credit, it is necessary to obtain at least 50 points out of a total of 100 points for the credit test on VBA MS Excel.

Participation in lectures (odd week) is facultative, exercises in odd weeks are mandatory - practicing the material presented in the lectures, presence on exercises in even weeks is optional, these are so-called consultation exercises, intended for solving questions or problems with homeworks and specific issues on the topics of the material being practiced.

Aims

The main goal is to learn programming techniques with the support of current development tools in the creation of user programs or more complex projects.


Students will know theoretically and practically the philosophy of creating simple and more complex applications based on knowledge of general and modern programming techniques and algorithms, including knowledge of a specific development tool.

Study aids

see recommended study literature and e-learning portal 

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BARILLA, J. Microsoft Excel 2013: Podrobná uživatelská příručka. 1. vyd. Brno: Computer Press, 2013. 496 s. ISBN 978-80-251-4114-4.
FORSTOVÁ Lenka, VBA Excel v příkladech + CD, Computer media, 2010, ISBN 978-80-7402-042-1.
Lambert, Joan. MOS 2016 Study Guide for Microsoft Excel. 1st ed. Redmond: Microsoft Press, 2016. 192 p. ISBN 978-0735699434
MYŠÁK, M. Kontingenční tabulky a grafy: Výukový průvodce. 1. vyd. Brno: Computer Press, 2013. 224 s. 978-80-251-4113-7.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BAK-MIn Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Introduction to VBA, forms, worksheet and workbook event procedures, ActiveX controls

3. Objects, methods, properties, events, Range, Offset and Cells properties, variables, constants, working with variant data types, determining the data type of a variable

5. Structured variables, linking with ActiveX controls, conditions, branching

7. Cycles with different numbers of repetitions, with a control condition at the beginning and end of the cycle, cycles of set or collection elements (for every in)

9. Procedures, functions, modules, overloading, error handling techniques 11. Working with files, printing

13. Final consultation

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Course itinerary, course content, basic rules
2. Introduction to VBA, forms, sheet and workbook event procedures, ActiveX controls
3. Consultation
4. Objects, methods, properties, events, Range, Offset and Cells properties, variables, constants, working with variant data types, determining variable data types
5. Consultation
6. Structured variables, linking to ActiveX controls, conditions, branching
7. Consultation
8. Loops with a constant number of repetitions, with a control condition at the beginning and end of the loop, loops of set or collection elements (for each in)
9. Consultation
10. Procedures, functions, modules, overloading, error handling techniques
11. Consultation
12. Working with files, printing
13. Final test

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Self-study

45 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Vypracování samostatných úkolů

Individual preparation for an ending of the course

20 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Preparing for the credit from study materials - e-learning and literature