Introduction

This Book Could Be for You

If you’re an experienced PC user who’s never delved into programming but now has the itch, this is the book that will get you started. It presumes you’re proficient with Windows and Windows applications, but that you wouldn’t know a line of code if it came up and bit you on the, uh, byte.

Chapter 1 explains the fundamental concepts behind all computer programming: the way computers store instructions in memory, the way they store data in memory, and the three logical constructs which, in combination, can express any procedure the human mind can conceive.

Of course you want to see how these concepts appear in programming statements, which requires a programming language to use an as example. In the case of this ...

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