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Computer Programming for Absolute Beginners

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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

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Base 10 – See Decimal.

Base 16 – See Hexadecimal.

Base 2 – See Binary.

Binary – A numbering system that works in base 2 – that is, it only uses two digits: zero and one.

Blank line – Used in programming to separate blocks of code that logically belong together.

Block comment – A comment in programming code that spans several lines. See Comment.

Boolean algebra – A branch of algebra in which operations are performed only on the true and false values. The name comes from George Boole, who introduced it in 1847.

Boolean type – A data type that stores the Boolean true and false values. See Boolean algebra.

Break – A statement used by many programming languages to exit the current code block. See Code block.

Breakpoint – Used when debugging applications to pause the execution at a particular line of code.

Brief code – A precursor of the Short code programming language. See...

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