Publisher's Synopsis
This practical book guides the reader from having no programming knowledge to being able to write small to medium-sized programs. It includes chapter summaries and exercises with solutions. There is a strong emphasis throughout on good program design.;The first three chapters cover different aspects of pseudo-code algorithm design (sequences and functions, repetition and selection), including case studies. For those new to computers, the essential facts of their organization are covered.;Chapter Five, on calculations, looks at the rules for choosing and introducing variables. Functions are then introduced and explored in Chapters Six to Seven. Chapter Eight on selection covers conditions and relational operators. Alternative techniques for loops are demonstrated in Chapter Nine. Character manipulation is introduced in Chapter Ten (with more coverage after arrays are explained).;A complete program, from design to coding, is explored as a case study. Advice on program style and achieving clarity is followed by chapters on debugging and testing, programming methodically, arrays, character strings, more on arrays, top-down implementation, processing files and object-oriented programming.;Appendices cover the array classes, libraries and graphics programming with the Borland Library.
