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Synopsis
This unique book uses full color illustrations to help readers understand the principles behind all computer programming. It is the book for beginners to read before they start learning computer programming. It offers non-programmers a basis for understanding what programmers do. The author Daniel Appleman is well-known for his bestselling books on VB.
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Consider, for a moment, a guy. This guy, about 40 years old, has worked all his life in a job that doesn't require much knowledge of computers, certainly not of how to write software. Now imagine that our guy decides to change career paths and learn computer programming. He goes and buys a book about a programming language, perhaps one that promotes itself as elementary. The book presents our hapless guy with recipes that he can follow, it's true, but it mostly confuses him with talk of APIs, linked lists, hashes and a whole lot of other stuff he doesn't really understand. "I can make it all work by following directions", our guy implores into the Void, "But I don't understand what I'm doing". This guy needs How Computer Programming Works.
In this book, Daniel Appleman sets out to explain computer programming at a conceptual level, and he succeeds admirably. He ignores the peculiar characteristics of specific programming languages (leaving them for specialised books) and instead uses fantastic colour illustrations and lucid text to explain what goes unsaid among professional programmers. He also uses pseudocode--a sort of standardised, generic programming language--and examples in BASIC to back up his points. Though Appleman approaches programming from a mainly procedural angle (the book would be better with more coverage of object-oriented programming techniques, which are fundamentally different in many cases), the contents of this book will suit any beginning student of programming and computer science, our guy included. --David Wall
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- PublisherApress
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1893115232
- ISBN 13 9781893115231
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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