Sams Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours

Greg Perry Dean Miller

Beginning Programming

Third Edition

Sams Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours, Third Edition

Copyright ? 2014 by Pearson Education

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ISBN-10: 0-672-33700-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33700-0

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2013951919

Printed in the United States of America

First Printing: December 2013

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Contents at a Glance

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Part I: Start Programming Today HOUR 1 Hands-On Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2 Process and Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3 Designing a Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 4 Getting Input and Displaying Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 5 Data Processing with Numbers and Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 6 Controlling Your Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 7 Debugging Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Part II: Programming Fundamentals HOUR 8 Structured Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 9 Programming Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 10 Having Fun with Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 11 Advanced Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Part III: Object-Oriented Programming with Java HOUR 12 Programming with Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 13 Java's Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 14 Java Has Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 15 Applets and Web Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Part IV: Other Programming Languages HOUR 16 HTML5 and CSS3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 17 JavaScript and AJAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 18 Scripting with PHP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 19 Programming with C and C++ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 20 Programming with Visual Basic 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 21 C# and the .NET Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Part V: The Business of Programming

HOUR 22 How Companies Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 23 Distributing Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 24 The Future of Programming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

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