Part I: Programming a Computer.

Chapter 1: Learning Computer Programming for the First Time.

Chapter 2: All about Programming Languages.

Chapter 3: How to Write a Program.

Chapter 4: The Tools of a Computer Programmer.

Part II: Learning Programming with Liberty BASIC.

Chapter 5: Getting Your Hands on a Real Language: Liberty BASIC.

Chapter 6: Handling Input and Output.

Chapter 7: Variables, Constants, and Comments.

Chapter 8: Crunching Numbers and Playing with Strings.

Chapter 9: Making Decisions with Control Statements.

Chapter 10: Repeating Yourself with Loops.

Part III: Advanced Programming with Liberty BASIC.

Chapter 11: Writing Large Programs by Using Subprograms.

Chapter 12: Drawing Pictures and Making Noise.

Chapter 13: Saving and Retrieving Stuff in Files.

Chapter 14: Creating a User Interface.

Chapter 15: Debugging Programs.

Part IV: Dealing with Data Structures.

Chapter 16: Storing Stuff in Arrays.

Chapter 17: Lumping Related Data in Records.

Chapter 18: Linked Lists and Pointers.

Chapter 19: Playing with Object-Oriented Programming.

Part V: Algorithms: Telling the Computer What to Do.

Chapter 20: Sorting.

Chapter 21: Searching.

Chapter 22: Optimizing Your Code.

Part VI: Internet Programming.

Chapter 23: Playing with HTML.

Chapter 24: Making Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript.

Chapter 25 Using Java Applets on Web Pages.

Part VII: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 26: Ten Cool Programming Careers.

Chapter 27: Ten Additional Programming Resources.

Appendix: About the CD.

Bonus Chapter: Programming in Python.

Index.

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