Starting Out with Programming Logic and Design

by Tony Gaddis

For introductory courses in Computer Programming." "" The Fundamentals of Programming When it comes to programming, understanding the founding concepts can greatly improve student engagement and future success. In its Fourth Edition, "Starting Out with Programming Logic and Design " is a language-independent introductory programming book, ideal for a precursor programming course or the first unit of an introductory programming course. The text covers fundamental topics such as data types, variables, input, output, control structures, modules, functions, arrays, files, object-oriented concepts, GUI development, and event-driven programming. Designed for beginners, the text is clear and approachable, making the complex concepts accessible to every student. In this edition, Gaddis uses updated, contemporary examples to familiarize students with models and logical thought processes used in programming without further complicating them with language syntax. By using easy-to-understand pseudocode, flowcharts, and other tools, Gaddis illustrates how to design the logic of programs. Then, confident in their high-level understanding of computer programming, students are able to handle programming languages and syntax with greater ease and aptitude.

Genres: Computer Science, Textbooks, Computers

664 pages, Paperback

First published October 11, 2007

Reviews

[Shannon]

and i'm finished with this class!

the text introduced programming concepts in an easy-to-understand way and this, coupled with my spectacular note card skills, kept me afloat in the class.

seriously though, this is one of the most in depth, yet easy to grasp textbooks i've ever had the (dis)pleasure of studying from.

[Andrew Obrigewitsch · Rating 5 out of 5]

This has to be the best book I have ever read on beginning programming. It actually teaches you as if you have never done programming before, what a new concept for a beginning programming book right? Every other beginners book I have read seemed to think that people just learning, where born writing If Then statement, counting in binary and turning their shopping lists into arrays.

I hate to break it to authors, but the average beginner doesn't even know what I just said. (This are just programming techniques and word, that you really don't need to know about unless you are learning programming, for all those unfortunate people like myself who where not born with this knowledge).

So if you want to learn programming, and didn't grow up fixing bugs on Windows yourself, this is the book to read.

[Breezy]

First college textbook that I have actually read cover to cover. I am currently working on doing a refresher of programming basics and I have to say that this book was very helpful. It's a shame that I didn't actually read it when I took the course that required it.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the Fourth Edition.
Needs more video notes, they really help clear the air.
I started with 0 knowledge of programming other than some hardware parts, which this book also briefly covers. This was one of my class textbooks which I aced all my projects following it. I came across 1 or 2 typos/errors in the book but not too big a deal. If you pay attention to other examples or the chapters then you can easily correct it. All in all I recommend this book.

[Hannibal · Rating 3 out of 5]

My only real issue with this book is the lack of syntax and vocabulary for Python itself. Pseudo code is definitely important, but I find it far more helpful to have the code and pseudo code within the same vicinity.

[Lucas Bomfim · Rating 5 out of 5]

The perfect book for beginners in programming.

[Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

At times it was a bit repetitive, but overall a great book to introduce the concepts of programming to a beginner. It was written in a very clear way and the examples and exercises were really good and useful. I was thinking of giving this four stars, but the last four chapters of the book made some tough parts of programming a lot easier to understand - especially the chapters on recursion and OOP, and the chapter on text processing was just a treat.

[Jason Gaytan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty easy to understand basic of how to get started in writing code. It can be a bit repetitive at times, but for good reason it seems.

[Renán Đf · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some exercises were not as clear as I wish but , overall was a great book.

[Juan Rodriguez]

Easy reading