The Handbook for Beginning Programmers with Examples in JavaScript

by Rex A. Barzee

Jammed full of hands on exercises and computer programming examples, this book will help you avoid frustration as you learn computer programming. From this book you will learn how to program a computer to perform calculations, make decisions, and repeat commands. You will learn how to organize your programs into functions and how to use arrays to store and process large amounts of data.The examples in this book includeWeatherconverting between Celsius and Fahrenheit,computing the U.S. National Weather Service wind chill factor,Businesscomputing miles per gallon,computing net pay,computing a sales discount based on the day of the week,computing compound interest,computing the future value of an investment,computing the payment and payoff amounts for a fixed interest loan,determining how long to invest in order to reach a target amount,Unit Conversionsconverting quarts to liters,converting meters to miles,Funconverting Arabic numbers to Roman numerals,a number guessing game,Mathcomputing the volume of a cylinder,computing the distance between two points,computing the volume of a cylinder,computing roots using the quadratic formula,determining if a number is prime,printing the Fibonacci series,computing the area of a triangle,computing the visible surface area of a pyramid,finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers,Arrayscreating an array,filling an array,reversing an array,finding a value in an array,sorting an array,multiplying the values in an array,rotating the elements of an array to the right,Textreverse a string of text,count the occurrences of a character within text,extract the family name from a person's full name,and more.

202 pages, Paperback

First published March 13, 2012

About the author

Rex A. Barzee is a professor of Computer Information Technology at Brigham Young University - Idaho. He is an inventor of two United States patents and the author of numerous courses and books. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. Before becoming a professor he worked in industry for eight years as a software developer for the Southwest Research Institute, Hewlett-Packard Company, and the Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory. He worked on various projects including the HP-UX kernel, HP-UX OpenGL 3D Graphics Library, full-text indexing, image processing, and VoiceXML applications.

Mr. Barzee posts articles about writing software that include many code examples at https://barzeer.github.io/
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