يعتبر كتاب Beginning Programming for Dummies هو أحد أقوى واشهر الكتب باللغة الإنجليزية في العالم والتي تتكلم عن أصل البرمجة
يحتوى الكتاب على العديد من المواضيع التي تتكلم عن أساسيات البرمجة والمحتويات الرئيسية لهذا الكتاب هو :
Introduction ……………………………………………………….1
Part I: Programming a Computer ……………………………..7
Chapter 1: Learning Computer Programming for the First Time …………………………..9
Chapter 2: All about Programming Languages ……………………………………………………19
Chapter 3: How to Write a Program ……………………………………………………………………37
Chapter 4: The Tools of a Computer Programmer ………………………………………………47
Part II: Learning Programming with Liberty BASIC ……59
Chapter 5: Getting Your Hands on a Real Language: Liberty BASIC …………………….61
Chapter 6: Handling Input and Output ……………………………………………………………….71
Chapter 7: Variables, Constants, and Comments ………………………………………………..79
Chapter 8: Crunching Numbers and Playing with Strings ……………………………………95
Chapter 9: Making Decisions with Control Statements ……………………………………..111
Chapter 10: Repeating Yourself with Loops ………………………………………………………129
Part III: Advanced Programming
with Liberty BASIC …………………………………………..139
Chapter 11: Writing Large Programs by Using Subprograms …………………………….141
Chapter 12: Drawing Pictures and Making Noise ………………………………………………161
Chapter 13: Saving and Retrieving Stuff in Files ………………………………………………..175
Chapter 14: Creating a User Interface ……………………………………………………………….191
Chapter 15: Debugging Programs ……………………………………………………………………..215
Part IV: Dealing with Data Structures …………………..223
Chapter 16: Storing Stuff in Arrays ……………………………………………………………………225
Chapter 17: Lumping Related Data in Records ………………………………………………….235
Chapter 18: Linked Lists and Pointers ………………………………………………………………241
Chapter 19: Playing with Object-Oriented Programming …………………………………..255
Part V: Algorithms: Telling the
Computer What to Do ………………………………………..267
Chapter 20: Sorting ………………………………………………………………………………………….269
Chapter 21: Searching ………………………………………………………………………………………287
Chapter 22: Optimizing Your Code ……………………………………………………………………299
