Beginning Programming for Dummies

by Wallace Wang

Despite popular belief, "anyone" can learn to program a computer. Computer programming doesn't require a high IQ and an innate proficiency in advanced mathematics. All that's required is a desire to learn and the patience to never give up.If you've ever dreamed of writing your own programs, rest assured that you can. Programming can be a lot of fun, but it can also be frustrating, annoying, and time-consuming. And that's why you need "Beginning Programming For Dummies, 2nd Edition" - to help you discover how to program a computer with the minimum amount of inconvenience and the maximum amount of enjoyment.Now, enjoyment can go only so far. In fact, not many people program just for the fun of it; usually, they want to create a program to do something unique to their lives, or perhaps they'd like to make a little cash on the side by selling their programs as shareware. If you've always wondered how you could do what so many others have done, all you have to do is plug into "Beginning Programming For Dummies, 2nd Edition, " to find out how. Here's just a sample of the topics you'll find Deciphering the mystery of the various programming languagesAssembling and working with programming toolsGetting inside a programming Liberty BASICProgramming From variables, constants, and comments to strings, control statements, and loopsCreating user interfaces for your programsDealing with data structuresPlaying with object-oriented programmingDebugging and optimizing your codeTop Ten lists on the top programming careers and additional resourcesSo no matter what operating system platform you use - whether it's Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Palm OS, or Pocket PC - "Beginning Programming For Dummies, 2nd Edition, " can walk you through the basics of programming and get you well on your way to becoming a programming wizard!

Genres: Programming, Nonfiction, Computers, Reference, Computer Science, Business, Technology

408 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 30, 1999

About the author

See also Wally Wang

Reviews

[Damon · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book to help form a base level of knowledge for some of the work I'm doing on an IT program. It was useful in introducing programming in several different languages and the commonalities between. Particularly good to have a very introductory view of C++ with BASIC equivalent alongside. But the final couple of chapters were clearly bolted on - the sections on HTML, Javascript, Java etc were rubbish, and clearly written as an update to the older 2001 edition. How can you write about HTML without CSS? So the core bit was good, but ignore the last section

[Ali · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting guide to a topic many can see as boring. This book is not only full of information and tools but is also entertaining and funny! Also at the end of the day you can use this book as a context guide to different sections within basic programming. I recommend it a lot.

[Matt Briggs · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't now how many times I've tried to learn the basic concepts of computer programming. This book did the trick.

[Tobias Langhoff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dette er boka jeg lærte meg å programmere med, da jeg var 12/13 år.

[William Mckinney · Rating 3 out of 5]

The writing in this book is effective because of the author's incorporation of sense of audience. This book can teach pretty much anyone how to code. The book's sense of audience is it's greatest strength, but the book lacks substance, and is basically a how-to. I would recommend this book to classmates willing to go through the process of learning programming skills. Now that I have read this book, I feel I can move on and learn coding online instead of reading more "Dummy" books.

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty basic stuff. Serves as a good intro, giving the flavor of a few languages, but is short on practical applications.

[Mohamed]

Very easy introduction for beginner programming in general and basic specifically

[Mahmoud elhofy · Rating 3 out of 5]

مشكلة الكتاب الترجمة السيئة جدا وفادني في البرمجه الكائنية وال مقدمه

[Vinod Kumar · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are new to programming, I definitely recommend it.
You will enjoy it.