Description
- Programming allows developers to create a sequence of instructions that enable computers to perform certain functions and tasks
- Offering the basic best practices and skills for novice programmers, this book helps readers gain new skills for writing programs and developing applications
- Teaches programming using C++ and explores scripting with JavaScript and VBScript, which are all free and don't require the reader to purchase any software
- Includes programming projects and real-world code examples that can be modified and expanded upon
Introduction.
Chapter 1: What Is Programming?
Chapter 2: Why Learn to Program?
Chapter 3: How Computers “Read” Code.
Chapter 4: From Concepts to Code — The Language of Code.
Chapter 5: The Tools for Programming.
Chapter 6: Simple Coding.
Chapter 7: The Structure of Coding.
Chapter 8: Problem Solving.
Chapter 9: Debugging.
Chapter 10: Interface.
Chapter 11: Putting It All Together.
Chapter 12: Interacting with Files.
Chapter 13: The Windows Registry.
Chapter 14: Organizing, Planning, and Version Control.
Chapter 15: Compiling Code and Alternatives to Compiling.
Chapter 16: Distributing Your Project.
Appendix A: Glossary.
Appendix B: Web Resources.
Index.
“A welcome addition to Wrox’s Beginning series and a good all-round introduction to programming for novices.” (Publishing News, 25th March 2005)
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| Missing answers to the "Quick Questions" See the download page for the file containing the answers. | 6/7/05 | |||
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| 2 | 22 | Error in Text PHP (Perl Hypertext Processor) should be: PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) | 7/12/05 | |
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| 56 | Error in Binary under the sentence Add zeros to the left-hand side.... the binary readout: 00101011 Should be: 00101111 | 11/27/06 | ||
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| 67 | Error in Text for the Or Logical Operator. In the In English statement, the x is equal to 5, and y is equal to 5. Should be: In the In English statement, the x is equal to 6, or y is equal to 5. | 04/07/08 | ||
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| 94 | Wrong File Path It is shown that the two cfg files should be saved in: c:\borland\bcc55 The compiler will not work if they are saved there. It cannot find the include files. You need to save the files in c:\borland\bcc55\bin | 6/2/05 | ||
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| 133 | This page has duplicate sections There is a listing twice on the page and the code is repeated as well. It begins with That's simple . | 4/27/05 | ||
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| 167-168 | Incorrect ASCII values In the ASCII table the characters corresponding to some of the ASCII values are incorrect. The correct values are: ASCII Character -------- ------------- 97 a 103 g 109 m 115 s 121 y | 1/9/06 | ||
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| 177-178 | Answer for code sample 6 The provided downloadable answers do not include an answer for code sample 6, only questions 1 to 5: 1 - 13 2 - 10 3 - No 4 - Yes 5 - An integer greater than 14 So...the answer for Q6 on page 178 should be: 6 - An integer greater than 12 | 2/16/06 | ||
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| 204 | Error in Text Figure 8-21 error the phrase The answer is doesn't exist in the code | 6/29/05 | ||
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| 204 | Text Error in Code cout << Tempperature Converter << endl; Should be: cout << Temperature Converter << endl; | 6/29/05 | ||
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| 205 | Hightlight New Line cout << Enter conversion type. << endl; This line of code should be highlighted because it is also new as the two below it. | 6/29/05 | ||
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