Robert Collins

Programming for Beginners Robert Collins

This book is an excellent introduction to programming for beginners. The book guides the reader on how to program in C, which is a structured programming language, as well as Java and Python, which are object oriented programming languages. The user is taken from the simple steps of preparing the environment to creation of their own applications. Most features associated with these programming languages are discussed. The book will help you learn how to use variables and data types in these programming languages. You are also guided on how to make decisions in these programming languages. The Java object oriented features supported in Java are explored in detail. These include inheritance, abstraction, classes, objects, and others. You will also learn the different ways you can achieve method overloading. If you would like to understand the concept of socket programming in Java, this is the best book for you. You will learn how to create both server and client applications, whereby the server will be responding to requests from the client. The various object oriented features supported in Python are also examined. You will learn how to perform inheritance in Python, including multilevel inheritance. You will also be shown how to create GUI applications in Python by use of the Tkinter Python library. The various types of events which can be handled in Python such as mouse clicks and mouse movement are also covered in this book, thus, you will know how to handle them. The following topics are discussed in this book: -Programming in C -Java Programming -Python Programming