Beginning Programming (Wrox Beginning Guides)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 479 pages
• Published by: Wrox April 15, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764584065
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764584060
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 1.5 pounds

Product Review
“A welcome addition to Wrox’s Beginning series and a good all-round introduction to programming for novices.” (Publishing News, 25th March 2005)

Product Description

• 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

Reader Reviews
This book is likely to frustrate true beginners. In attempting to work through the excercises, the C++ complier the authors recommend refused to compile the sample code. Two frustrating hours later pursuing solutions on the Borland web site, I managed to create two configuration files, edit my environmental variables, and finally get the code to compile. Such geek gymnastics are certainly beyond most "beginners," and are likely to cause them to give up the whole idea of learning to code. Shame on Borland for providing a compiler that was apparently never beta tested on XP(!), and shame on Wrox for failing to provide adequate instructions. There are a few answers of varying quality and coherance on their forum, but you shouldn't have to resort to the forum to run the very first compiled program in the book. If you aren't familiar with how a compiler works BEFORE reading this book, you are likely to run aground sometime around Chapter 7. Save your money.