
Beginning Programming
Easy Lessons on Coding, from First Line to Finished Program
Matt Telles(Author)
Alpha (Publisher)
Published on 1. August 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-1-61564-505-3 (ISBN)
Description
Basic computer programming can be intimidating to anyone who has ever attempted to write their first line of code. Idiot's Guides: Basic Programming takes the fear out of learning programming by teaching readers the basics of programming with Python, an open-source (free) environment which is considered one of the easiest languages to learn for beginners, Python has consistent syntax, a solid standardized library, and a simplicity that isn't always present in other languages. Readers will learn not only the "how" of programming but the "why" so that they not only know how to write code, but why that code works, and how it relates to other languages and forms of programming. Readers will learn how to program through simple projects that help them to learn how basic programming works, while encouraging them to be creative and enabling them to see the tangible results of their coding.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 196 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
642 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61564-505-3 (9781615645053)
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E-Book
08/2014
1st Edition
DK
€6.99
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Person
Matt Telles is a senior software developer at Thompson Reuters and the author of eight books on software development subjects ranging from programming to testing. With 25 years of experience as a developer, manager and tester, his experiences have taken him through the mainframe world, past PCs and into the cloud and beyond. He's worked on everything from Linux and MS-DOS to Windows 8 and the Cloud.