Beginning Programming All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Wang, Wallace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119884403 ISBN 13: 9781119884408

Publisher: For Dummies, 2022

Synopsis

Let there be code!

Beginning Programming All-in-One For Dummies offers one guide packed with 7 books to teach you programming across multiple languages. Coding can seem complex and convoluted, but Dummies makes it simple and easy to understand. You’ll learn all about the principles of programming, algorithms, data structures, debugging programs, unique applications of programming and more while learning about some of the most popular programming languages used today. Move confidently forward in your computer science coursework or straight into the workforce. You’ll come away with a rock-solid foundation in the programming basics, using data, coding for the web, and building killer apps.

• Learn the basics of coding, including writing and compiling code, using algorithms, and data structures
• Get comfortable with the syntax of several different programming languages
• Wrap your mind around interesting programming opportunities such as conducting biological experiments within a computer or programming a video game engine
• Develop cross-platform applications for desktop and mobile devices

This essential guide takes the complexity and convolution out of programming for beginners and arms you with the knowledge you need to follow where the code takes you.

About this title

About the Author

Wallace Wang specializes in making complex topics understandable. His assorted For Dummies tech books have sold nearly half a million copies. He has a master’s degree in computer science along with side hustles in stand-up comedy and screenwriting because life is too short to focus on just one thing.

From the Back Cover

Your all-in-one guide to coding

This step-by-step guide introduces you to the mysteries of computer programming! You’ll start with the basic principles of programming, the evolution of programming languages, the common techniques for organizing code, and how programmers create a program from start to finish. You’ll see the syntax of different programming languages, discover how programs store information in data structures, and learn different coding for the web so you can be well on your way to a programming career!

7 Books Inside…

• Getting Started with Programming
• Programming Basics
• Data Structures
• Algorithms
• Web Programming
• Programming Language Syntax
• Applications

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119884403
• ISBN 13: 9781119884408
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 800