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Computer Programming for Absolute Beginners

You're reading from   Computer Programming for Absolute Beginners Learn essential computer science concepts and coding techniques to kick-start your programming career

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839216862
Length 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joakim Wassberg Joakim Wassberg
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Computer Programs and Computer Programming
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Computer Programs FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Programming Languages 4. Chapter 3: Types of Applications 5. Chapter 4: Software Projects and How We Organize Our Code 6. Section 2: Constructs of a Programming Language
7. Chapter 5: Sequence – The Basic Building Block of a Computer Program 8. Chapter 6: Working with Data – Variables 9. Chapter 7: Program Control Structures 10. Chapter 8: Understanding Functions 11. Chapter 9: When Things Go Wrong – Bugs and Exceptions 12. Chapter 10: Programming Paradigms 13. Chapter 11: Programming Tools and Methodologies 14. Section 3: Best Practices for Writing High-Quality Code
15. Chapter 12: Code Quality 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: How to Translate the Pseudocode into Real Code 1. Appendix B: Dictionary

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Database – An organized set of data, stored and accessed electronically. Other applications typically use the data.

Debugger – A tool used by programmers to find errors in a program code. It will let the programmer step through the code line by line while executing the code, and the programmer can inspect the values of variables and the execution path that is taken.

Decimal – A numbering system that works in base 10 – that is, it uses 10 digits to represent numbers. It is the numbering system that we usually use.

Dictionary type – A data type that stores data in key-value pairs. The key value must be unique for every item in the dictionary.

Directive comment – A comment in the source code not intended for humans but other programming tools, such as compilers.

Division by zero – An error that occurs in a division where the divisor is zero.

Docstring – A comment that is formatted in a predefined way.

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