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Summary: The best that I have ever seen!
Review: I wanted to do Visual Basic,but my programming base was a bit week.But thanks to Greg perry,I feel different now.He has concentrated on QBasic which is easy to understand and it will really give you a firm base to your programming career.It is worth every penny you spend on it.Just do it!
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Summary: begining programming
Review: I would recommend this book for beginers, It explains the basics of programming, and also starts you off in java , c or c++ , although you do need the compilers for c and c++.and also ultimatediscountbooksource@yahoo.com shipped it quickly and I had the book within a week.
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Summary: Finally, I can understand about programming and languages!
Review: I'd been banging my head against the wall for a while just trying to figure out where to start in learning to program. There are so many languages it's difficult for the beginner to decide which one to start with and to understand what the difference is between them. Sure, I wanted to dive right in and start programming from page 1 but I'm grateful that he teaches about planning first. All of the programming details make so much more sense when you know what you're wanting to accomplish.
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Summary: Great Book Even for Intermediate Learners
Review: If you've been "dabbling" in programming, even reading a few books on various languages, this book is still pretty informative. Although the book starts VERY rudimentary (the first chapter seems to labor on the point that computers can't possibly take over the world) it quickly steps the reader through the history of programming and key programming concepts. The chapters on program design, program process, and program algorithms are invaluable and not found books that focus on programming languages (instead of programming style). Perry does a great job of giving enough background information to explain why the programming languages look and act the way they do, and explains the concept of object-oriented programming better than anything else I've read. On the down side, there is a definite bias toward microsoft, and the internet chapter could be expanded and updated to be truly useful. If you're new to programming or looking to fill in a few basic gaps, this book is an excellent resource.
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Summary: Great Book Even for Intermediate Learners
Review: If you've been "dabbling" in programming, even reading a few books on various languages, this book is still pretty informative. Although the book starts VERY rudimentary (the first chapter seems to labor on the point that computers can't possibly take over the world) it quickly steps the reader through the history of programming and key programming concepts. The chapters on program design, program process, and program algorithms are invaluable and not found books that focus on programming languages (instead of programming style). Perry does a great job of giving enough background information to explain why the programming languages look and act the way they do, and explains the concept of object-oriented programming better than anything else I've read. On the down side, there is a definite bias toward microsoft, and the internet chapter could be expanded and updated to be truly useful. If you're new to programming or looking to fill in a few basic gaps, this book is an excellent resource.
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Summary: The best beginner's programming book ever written
Review: Overall, I have found this book to be an incredibly easy to understand, concise starter course for the beginning programmer. Most books of its kind are large, cumbersome volumes, but this book was much smaller than I had preconceived. At 492 pages, this book does more than any other book I have ever seen. When I first approached the book, I had no previous knowledge of programming whatsoever. I have found this book to be completely friendly to people such as myself... people who have never typed one program command but suddenly find themselves wanting to program. This book focuses on the structure of programs and program design before it actually delves into the world of programming languages. I have found this section of the book to teach you invaluable design habits early in your programming knowledge, and basically to teach you how to design well planned-out, methodical, maintainable and easy to follow programs.
A large portion of the book focuses on a very good programming language for beginners, QBasic. As its name insinuates, this language is very easy to learn, and any beginning programmer can grasp the concepts of QBasic quite easily. After giving you sufficient practice with QBasic, it then moves on to give you a swift overview of Windows programming in general, Visual Basic, C, and C++. I found these chapters to be very helpful to me in my learning of these languages. Also, now that I am learning to program in Visual Basic, I have truly appreciated how much of QBasic actually transfers verbatim into the Visual Basic programming environment... my learning of QBasic has helped me inconceivably with learning Visual Basic. The sections on C and C++ also do a great deal for the two chapters they occupy. These two chapters give you a sufficient knowledge of the operators and algorithms of C and C++ to get you started on these languages if you would ever want to pursue them (which most programmers would, considering they are the most widely used languages on earth). The book then goes on to explain programming algorithms, ways to actually accomplish certain tasks with programs, such as sorting, searching, making comparisons and decisions based upon various circumstances, etc.. It then delves into the world of corporate programming and the various positions of programmers in today's society. But, me being only 12 years old, I did not have much interest in this aspect of the book since that aspect of programming is quite a ways off for me. Well, considering this book now in its entirety, I truly and gratefully tip my hat to Greg Perry for the wonderful job he did on this book. And now, to answer the question surely in everyone's mind, "Does this book really teach you programming in 24 hours?" Well, the answer to this question is most assuredly... Yes.
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Summary: What you would learn.... IF you took a class
Review: Reads like an extended course description. Very few examples. Code examples are often incomplete so they cant be run. No real 'projects' to test any skills. Comes with Liberty Basic (shareware) (you can download this seperately and learn more from its own help/tutorials). For the most part, you dont even need a computer to read this book. The code examples are only excerpts so you have to study them from the text in the book anyway. What gets me more than anything is I found about 5 errors in code and text that are important! Things like mislabeled variables that would confuse anyone trying to learn. Although I guess finding the mistakes is a lesson in itself. OK, that was the bad part, but I didnt give it a score of 1 because it is easy to read (fast). It does mention a wide range of topics, and it comes with a useable version of Basic (but only limited shareware, also there is a later version online). For a real beginner, this is one way to start off slow. It is disappointing because it could have been much better with only a little more effort. A few larger examples, and a few more actual coding projects instead of just saying 'if you want to create a text box in your program, type the following line....', and then moving on to the next lesson. This review relates to the 2nd edition.
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Summary: Great book, that gives you a nice intro to programming
Review: The Book is great, if you wan't to start a career or hobby as a programmer. You will not learn to make big programs, but you will get some great ideas and tools, that you can use, when you are programming.
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Summary: A horrible book
Review: This book gives you an introduction to the different programming languages. It also provides a very good source of information. However, if you have never typed code before, and you want to learn, this book is definetly not your best option. Also, this book does not come with an application that helps you create games. It only gives you the concept/logic behind game making. What good is that if you can not put it to use???
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Summary: A horrible book
Review: This book gives you an introduction to the different programming languages. It also provides a very good source of information. However, if you have never typed code before, and you want to learn, this book is definetly not your best option. Also, this book does not come with an application that helps you create games. It only gives you the concept/logic behind game making. What good is that if you can not put it to use???
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