Absolute beginner's guide to programming

Summary: Annotation "Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Second Edition" will help the reader understand what programming really is. The reader not only gets an overview of the job of programming, but also learns which specific skills are needed for certain jobs. The reader will understandHow a computer interprets a program's instructions and gain insight into what goes on "under the hood" when a computer runs a program. How programming can and does relate to the Internet and learn about the skills required for adding security to programs. Compiled versus other kinds of programs such as interpreted languages like JavaScript and HTML, which are more formatting and hyperlink languages. Job potential in the programming market. "Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Second Edition" offers "hands-on" programming for the "absolute beginner." There are several texts for specific languages, and two offerings (IDG and Sams) that attempt to take an overview-to-programming attitude, but this is the only one that takes today's programming environments and explains why each is important and for whom they are important.

Record details

ISBN: 6611084274
ISBN: 9786611084271
ISBN: 9781281084279
ISBN: 1281084271
ISBN: 9780789725295
ISBN: 0789725290
ISBN: 9780768655339
ISBN: 0768655331
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 416 pages) : illustrations.
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Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : Que, ©2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	pt. I. Prelude to Programming -- 1. Computers Are Tools -- 2. Anatomy of a Program -- pt. II. Fundamentals of Programming -- 3. Programming Languages: The Early Years -- 4. Programming Languages: Modern Day -- pt. III. Hands-On Programming -- 5. Your First Language: Visual Basic -- 6. Input and Output -- 7. Data Processing with Visual Basic -- 8. Working with Data -- 9. Having Fun with Visual Basic -- 10. Advanced Visual Basic Programming -- 11. Online Visual Basic Programming -- pt. IV. Programming in Various Environments -- 12. Program Algorithms -- 13. Programming with C -- 14. Programming with C++ -- 15. Batch, Macro, and Scripting Languages -- 16. Internet Programming Concepts -- 17. HTML Programming -- 18. DHTML Programming -- 19. Introduction to XML -- 20. Java Programming -- 21. JavaScript -- pt. V. The Business of Programming -- 22. The Importance of Maintenance -- 23. Distributing Your Applications -- 24. The Programming Business -- 25. Your Programming Future.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.