Название: Programming for Absolute Beginners: Using the jаvascript Programming Language
Автор: Jonathan Bartlett
Издательство: Apress
Год: 2023
Страниц: 332
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub (true)
Размер: 24.8 MB

New programmers start here...this book introduces students or aspiring professionals to the world of computer programming using jаvascript and related technologies. This book doesn't just teach the basics of programming, but also all of the tools that new programmers need to get started, including the basics of making web pages and how the Internet works.

Programming for Absolute Beginners offers practice problems, activities, and a host of resources to get new programmers started, plus a large glossary of terms introduced in the book and that a new programmer might encounter when learning on their own. No special software is required; this book will help you regardless of what your computer setup is, and source code will be freely available via GitHub.

The programming language covered in this book is called jаvascript. I like to teach jаvascript as a first language for several reasons. First of all, jаvascript was developed to be a first language. One of the goals of the language was to make it easy for new programmers to get started quickly. Even though jаvascript was designed to make programming easier for new programmers, it is not any less powerful as a language. Second, jаvascript has become the de facto programming language for website interfaces. If you use a website that does anything besides link to other web pages, jаvascript is probably involved. Therefore, learning jаvascript will have immediate practical benefits in learning how the Web operates. Third, the tools for programming jаvascript are available on every computer. You don’t need to download any special tools to program jаvascript. If you have a computer with a web browser, you can program jаvascript! Finally, jаvascript is very similar to other popular programming languages such as C#, Java, and Swift. Therefore, knowing jаvascript will not only be immediately beneficial for programming websites, it is also a language that makes it easy to transition to other popular systems.

What You Will Learn:
How computers work
How computers communicate over networks
How web pages are built with HTML and CSS
How jаvascript works
How jаvascript interacts with web pages
Intermediate jаvascript topics such as recursion and scoping
Using jаvascript for network communication

Who This Book Is For:
Anyone wanting to begin computer programming, including students who need to learn the fundamentals and early professionals who want to go back and revisit the basics. This book is for the first-time programmer. No prior programming experience is assumed. This book does assume that you have a basic understanding of how to use your computer and browse the Internet. That is all that you need!