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Summary: Great Book!
Review: The only reason why I gave this 4/5 instead of full marks is because I'm a teacher, so the book would have been perfect if chapters had review exercises, quizzes, perhaps a project here and there, etc. The big problem with commercial books such as the Dummies series is they don't provide assessment material for the student/reader. That being said, if Wang ever decides to publish a book such as this for the classroom, he'd corner the market. He writes in a way that connects with students of all ages. I'd give my right arm for something like this in VisualBasic.Net and a bazillion teachers would follow suit.
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Summary: written by a dummy
Review: there are so many mistakes in the syntax and order of the examples that it makes it practically impossible for the beginner to try the examples and successfully execute. Aweful book, numerous errors, that prohibit the examples from being useful.
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Summary: Great for true beginners
Review: This book is excellent for anyone who wants to start programming. Im fifteen and I read it in 2 days, and (remarkably) understood all of the book's key points! It goes over the various popular languages, and explains the pros and cons of each one (C/C++, java, basic...), and explains them in English, not assuming you know the programming world's "lingo". It also has a great QBASIC section to get you programming fast with tons of sample programs. This is truly a great book.
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Summary: Discover just how easy it is to write computer programs
Review: This friendly guide takes the mystery out of programming-and opens the door to a world of possibilities. With loads of examples and a dash of humor, author Wallace Wang walks you through the fundamentals-and shows you step-by-step how to write programs in QBASIC for any Windows or DOS computer. Discover how to: *Master the basics of QBASIC *Tackle everything from data structures to debugging *Find compilers and other professional tools online *Understand object-oriented programming *Compare QBASIC with C, C++, and Java
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Summary: Beginning Programming
Review: This is a great book for beginners. I do wish that Wang had showed how to use the mouse in QBASIC. Other things like timers would have been nice to. Great if you want to see if you'll like programming or not. :-)
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Summary: good for beginners
Review: This is a very good book for beginners to programming - more specifically qbasic. Qbasic is good because it is free, so if you decide you don't like programming or are no good at it you haven't wasted hundreds of pounds. The book itself explains most of the key features of Qbasic, though only the ones which you need to get started, and there are loads which it doesn't explain. However, with that book I got started on programming, and it is very good and clearly written.
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Summary: Totally Awesome book on beginning Programming
Review: This is great book on beginning programming. Get all you need to know on starting on QBASIC, sounds, graphics, and if...then loops. It also has a very good section on JavaScript and an even better one on HTML. It tells you all you need to know about getting utilities for programming from the Internet. For example at PowerBasic.com, you can get a program that lets you use your mouse with QBasic and get other stuff(like a true compiler!) Overall, a great book ! :)
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Summary: Lame Political slant, syntax errors but decent otherwise
Review: This is the book that I first learned computer programming off of. I always wanted to know how people made games so I asked my mom, who works with computers. She said people wrote software. I said I wanted to learn how to write software and she took me to the book store and "Beginning Programming For Dummies" is what we bought. This book laid down an excellent foundation for the skills I developed in the future. Some people didn't like it, some did. Every book is going to have some errors in it somewhere; humans aren't perfect. The things I like about this book is that it stresses clean structure of code, something VERY important when it comes to programming. It also stresses more on concepts rather than technical details with the programming language, which is more important. Even though this book uses Liberty Basic, all of the concepts taught are useful with all other programming languages, even C, C++, and assembly. You can't go wrong with this book.
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Summary: Excellent for Beginner
Review: This is the book that I first learned computer programming off of. I always wanted to know how people made games so I asked my mom, who works with computers. She said people wrote software. I said I wanted to learn how to write software and she took me to the book store and "Beginning Programming For Dummies" is what we bought. This book laid down an excellent foundation for the skills I developed in the future. Some people didn't like it, some did. Every book is going to have some errors in it somewhere; humans aren't perfect. The things I like about this book is that it stresses clean structure of code, something VERY important when it comes to programming. It also stresses more on concepts rather than technical details with the programming language, which is more important. Even though this book uses Liberty Basic, all of the concepts taught are useful with all other programming languages, even C, C++, and assembly. You can't go wrong with this book.
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Summary: Good value, great reading!
Review: Yes, the humor and drawings can be corny and silly but overall this book is at least as good as Greg Perry's 'Teach yourself programming in 24 hours' (SAMS, 1998). As well as giving a solid grounding in venerable old QBASIC (hopefully then the reader can try their hand at VB, VBA, VbScript), Wallace's book presents bits of Java, Pascal, C/CC+ presented throughtout, and lots of useful websites. Definitely worth a look!
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