Wallace Wang is a bestselling author with more than 2.3 million For Dummies books in print, including Microsoft Office For Dummies. He's also a stand--up comic who has performed on TV.
Introduction.
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: The Building Blocks of Programming.
Chapter 5: Getting Started.
Chapter 6: The Structure of a Computer Program.
Chapter 7: Variables, Constants, and Comments.
Chapter 8: Crunching Numbers and Playing with Strings.
Chapter 9: Making Decisions with Branching Statements.
Chapter 10: Repeating Yourself with Loops.
Chapter 11: Dividing a Program into Subprograms.
Chapter 12: Storing Stuff in Arrays.
Chapter 13: Playing with Object-Oriented Programming.
Part III: Advanced Programming Topics.
Chapter 14: Sorting and Searching Algorithms.
Chapter 15: Debugging Programs.
Chapter 16: Optimizing Your Code.
Chapter 17: Creating a User Interface.
Part IV: Internet Programming.
Chapter 18: Playing with HTML.
Chapter 19: Making Interactive Web Pages with JavaScript.
Chapter 20: Using Java Applets on Web Pages.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 21: Ten Additional Programming Resources.
Chapter 22: Ten Cool Programming Careers.
Appendix A: Common Loop and Branching Structures.
Appendix B: Free Language Compilers and Interpreters.
Appendix C: Common Programming Terms.
Appendix D: Installing the CD Compilers.
Index.
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