Book description
Everyonecan benefit from basic programming skills–and after you start, you just might want to go a whole lot further.
Author Steven Foote taught himself to program, figuring out the best ways to overcome every obstacle. Now a professional web developer, he’ll help you follow in his footsteps. He teaches concepts you can use with any modern programming language, whether you want to program computers, smartphones, tablets, or even robots.
Learning to Program will help you build a solid foundation in programming that can prepare you to achieve just about any programming goal. Whether you want to become a professional software programmer, or you want to learn how to more effectively communicate with programmers, or you are just curious about how programming works, this book is a great first step in helping to get you there.
Learning to Program will help you get started even if you aren’t sure where to begin.
• Learn how to simplify and automate many programming tasks
• Handle different types of data in your programs
• Use regular expressions to find and work with patterns
• Write programs that can decide what to do, and when to do it
• Use functions to write clean, well-organized code
• Create programs others can easily understand and improve
• Test and debug software to make it reliable
• Work as part of a programming team
• Learn the next steps to take to build a lifetime of programming skills
Table of contents
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Introduction: Why I Wrote This Book
- 1. “Hello, World!” Writing Your First Program
- 2. How Software Works
- 3. Getting to Know Your Computer
- 4. Build Tools
- 5. Data (Types), Data (Structures), Data(bases)
- 6. Regular Expressions
- 7. if, for, while, and When
- 8. Functions and Methods
- 9. Programming Standards
- 10. Documentation
- 11. Planning
- 12. Testing and Debugging
- 13. Learning to Fish: How to Acquire a Lifetime of Programming Knowledge
- 14. Building Your Skills
- 15. Advanced Topics
- Glossary
- Index
- Code Snippets
Product information
- Title: Learning to Program
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2014
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780133795257
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