Sams Teach Yourself Series

Beginning Programming in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself (Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition)

Sams Teach Yourself Windows 95 in 24 Hours, Second Edition

With learning broken down into twenty-four one-hour lessons, this easy-to-follow tutorial can be used by individuals, in seminars, training sessions, and classrooms. Whether users are just starting out or are migrating from previous versions of Windows, this is a must-have resource to get them up and running-quickly and easily.

Beginning Programming in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself

by Greg Perry and Dean Miller

Published 2 November 2001

If you want to learn computer programming but don’t know which language to start with, this is the book for you! In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, any beginner can get a solid introduction to the basics of computer programming and learn to write simple programs for any platform—Windows, Mac, and mobile.

Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson in this carefully crafted tutorial builds upon the previous one, allowing you to learn all the essentials of programming from the ground up.

Once you’ve mastered these fundamentals, the book introduces you to several of the most popular computer programming languages today and helps you decide which language to learn first.

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common programming tasks.
Practical, hands-on examples show you how to apply what you learn to create your own programs
Quizzes and exercises at the end of each lesson help you test your knowledge and stretch your skills

Learn how to…

Set up your programming toolkit with widely available free downloads
Create simple programs in JavaScript that get user input and display output
Process numbers and words
Use variables to hold information
Merge strings together
Tell programs how to make decisions
Create algorithms to count data values and accumulate totals
Use JavaScript to create interactive web pages
Improve a user’s experience with cookies
Debug your programs before going live
Structure programs for readability
Apply your programming skills to more advanced languages like Java
Use object-oriented programming techniques
Choose between other popular languages like C and C++, HTML5 and CSS3, Visual Basic and .NET, and PHP
Distribute and sell your programs

Sty O/O Prog Vis C++ 1.5 21dy

by Greg Perry

Published 1 February 1994

This book covers all aspects of the basics of learning the C++ language and object-oriented programming with no prior knowledge of C required. The book is presented in a 21 day style format, with numerous examples and line drawings showing all the features of learning Visual C++ 1.5. Covers classes, objects, constructors, destructors, overloading, inheritance, and all features of OOP.

Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio 6 Megabundle

by Greg Perry

Published 6 April 1999

This bundle comprises three titles: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself C++ 6 in 24 Hours and Sams Teach Yourself Visual InterDev 6 in 24 Hours. Each title offers an introduction to the major topics within each subject, providing a grounding for Visual Studio 6.