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Computer Programming for Absolute Beginners

You're reading from  Computer Programming for Absolute Beginners

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839216862
Pages 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Joakim Wassberg Joakim Wassberg

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Computer Programs and Computer Programming
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Computer Programs 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Programming Languages 4. Chapter 3: Types of Applications 5. Chapter 4: Software Projects and How We Organize Our Code 6. Section 2: Constructs of a Programming Language
7. Chapter 5: Sequence – The Basic Building Block of a Computer Program 8. Chapter 6: Working with Data – Variables 9. Chapter 7: Program Control Structures 10. Chapter 8: Understanding Functions 11. Chapter 9: When Things Go Wrong – Bugs and Exceptions 12. Chapter 10: Programming Paradigms 13. Chapter 11: Programming Tools and Methodologies 14. Section 3: Best Practices for Writing High-Quality Code
15. Chapter 12: Code Quality 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: How to Translate the Pseudocode into Real Code 1. Appendix B: Dictionary

Code modules

If programs are used, they are also updated, and if you are the developer of a program, this means that you will need to edit the source code in order to add features and fix errors. If your code is not well organized, it will be hard to read and maintain because you will need much more time to find where to insert your new code or where that nasty error might be.

One measure to make your code easier to handle is to distribute it into several logical blocks. But how do we decide what will go into such a block? There are no fixed rules for how this is done, but the language you use might give you some hints, depending on how it wants you to structure the code. In the end, it is up to you to make the final decision.

The code we write is logically connected, so to be able to do something, we often need to do a couple of other things first. It is as if you wake up in the morning and, while still in bed, you remember that there is nothing at home to make breakfast with...

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