Beginning Programming All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies®, w. CD-ROM

Introduction.Book I: Getting Started.Chapter 1: Getting Started Programming a Computer.Chapter 2: Different Methods for Writing Programs.Chapter 3: Types of Programming Languages.Chapter 4: Programming Tools.Chapter 5: Managing Large Projects with Software Engineering.Book II: Programming Basics.Chapter 1: How Programs Work.Chapter 2: Variables, Data Types, and Constants.Chapter 3: Manipulating Data.Chapter 4: Making Decisions by Branching.Chapter 5: Repeating Commands by Looping.Chapter 6: Breaking a Large Program into Subprograms.Chapter 7: Breaking a Large Program into Objects.Chapter 8: Reading and Saving Files.Chapter 9: Documenting Your Program.Chapter 10: Principles of User Interface Design.Book III: Data Structures.Chapter 1: Structures and Arrays.Chapter 2: Sets and Linked Lists.Chapter 3: Collections and Dictionaries.Chapter 4: Stacks, Queues, and Deques.Chapter 5: Graphs and Trees.Book IV: Algorithms.Chapter 1: Sorting Algorithms.Chapter 2: Searching Algorithms.Chapter 3: String Searching.Chapter 4: Data Compression Algorithms.Chapter 5: Encryption Algorithms.Book V: Web Programming.Chapter 1: HyperText Markup Language.Chapter 2: CSS.Chapter 3: JavaScript.Chapter 4: PHP.Chapter 5: Ruby.Book VI: Programming Language Syntax.Chapter 1: C and C++.Chapter 2: Java and C#.Chapter 3: Perl and Python.Chapter 4: Pascal and Delphi.Chapter 5: Visual Basic and REALbasic.Book VII: Applications.Chapter 1: Database Management.Chapter 2: Bioinformatics.Chapter 3: Computer Security.Chapter 4: Artificial Intelligence.Chapter 5: The Future of Computer Programming.Index.

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