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# Programming allows developers to create a sequence of instructions that enable computers to perform certain functions and tasks # Offering the basic best practices and skills for novice programmers, this book helps readers gain new skills for writing programs and developing applications # Teaches programming using C++ and explores scripting with JavaScript and VBScript, which are all free and don't require the reader to purchase any software # Includes programming projects and real-world code examples that can be modified and expanded upon

A significant technology update to the existing edition, with more than thirty percent new content Covers the main features of computer programming: the basics, how to write a program, getting started with Liberty BASIC, writing large programs by using subprograms, creating a user interface, debugging programs, dealing with data structures, basic Internet programming, and much more Helps readers choose the best programming language to accomplish a particular task, understand the tools that programmers use, and write their own programs to make a job easier or to launch a programming career Author has written fifteen previous For Dummies books as well as three editions of the popular Steal This Computer Book: WhatThey Won’t Tell You About the Internet CD-ROM includes several freeware and shareware programs for writing programs, all the examples and code provided in the book, and a bonus chapter

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Coauthored by Brian Kernighan, one of the pioneers of the C programming language, The Practice of Programming is a manual of good programming style that will help any C/C++ or Java developer create faster, more maintainable code...