- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Que; 3 edition (Nov 30 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0789729059
- ISBN-13: 978-0789729057
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 18.6 x 2.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 726 g
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #643,713 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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No prior programming experience necessary!
Absolute Beginner¿s Guide to Programming helps readers understand what programming really is. Readers not only get an overview of the job of programming, but also learn which specific skills are needed for certain jobs. Coverage includes how a computer interprets a program¿s instructions with insight into what goes on "under the hood" when a computer runs a program, how programming can and does relate to the Internet and the skills required for adding security to programs, and compiled versus interpreted languages like JavaScript and HTML. Absolute Beginner¿s Guide to Programming offers "hands on" programming for the "absolute beginner". Though there are hundreds of books for beginners about specific languages, this is the only book that takes today's programming environments and explains why each is important and where each works best.
About the Author
Greg Perry has personally taught thousands of people how to program in the classroom and lectures, as well as impacted the computer world through the sale of more than two million computer books internationally.
He has been a programmer and trainer for the past 20 years. He received an undergraduate degree in computer science, followed by a master's degree in corporate finance. After working as a supervisor of financial systems for a Fortune 500 company, he turned to teaching at the college level, where he remained until he began to write full-time and lecture at programming conferences.
Some of his other book titles include Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days, C by Example, and several books in the 24 Hours series, including Sams Teach Yourself PCs in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself Office in 24 Hours, and Sams Teach Yourself Windows Millennium in 24 Hours. He has also written articles for several magazines, including PC World and Data Training. He is fluent in several computer languages and speaks a little Italian as well.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
I Wish I Had Known,
By A Customer
This review is from: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming (Paperback)
The book lives up to its title in terms of being an introductory guide to programming, but what I didn't know was I had to have the specific program "Visual Basic" as well to get beyond chapter five. This revelation left the remaining 19 chapters of the book of no value to me at all. I do have "Visual Basic.Net", but it's way too much of a process to try to convert from one program to another and learn how they work at the same time.
1.0 out of 5 stars
decent book but author's background dubious,
By marzipan.dragon (maryland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming (Paperback)
An OK primer for beginners, covering the rudiments of programming well. But before you buy this, or any other of Mr. Perry's books, I suggest you look into some of his virulently hateful non-computer-related comments; for example, those published on his own web site, www.gregandjayne.com. This site has since been sanitized, but you can still access the page www.gregandjayne.com/GregsCorner.htm by going to Google and typing in the words "still proudly intolerant of homosexuals" into the advanced search exact phrase box.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't buy without having Visual Basic,
By A Customer
This review is from: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming (Paperback)
This book requires visual basic. So if you thought all you had to do to start programming today think again. Trying to read this book without following along in visual basic was way to confusing. So if you want to buy this book to learn programming I would also recommend you buy Microsoft's Visual Basic. You can find the current price at microsoft.com. Other wise I would recommend to a true absolute beginner buying Wallace Wang's "Beginning Programming for Dummies" Try to keep in mind you will want the most recent edition because things in the languages change with each version.
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