Beginning Programming in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself, Third Edition

Hour 1. Hands-On Programming

You have this book because you want to go farther than the typical computer user. You don’t just want to use computers; you want to write programs for them. You want the skills necessary to make computers do exactly what you want.

This 24-hour tutorial shows that you don’t have to be a wizard to become a proficient (or even an expert) programmer. By the time you finish this one-hour lesson, you will have entered your first computer program, run it, and looked at the results. This chapter springboards you into programming so you can get a feel for programming right away. Once you’ve had this hands-on experience, subsequent hours will explain more of the background you need to understand how to design and write programs. ...