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Programming Basics: Getting Started with Java, C#, and Python
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Programming Basics: Getting Started with Java, C#, and Python

by Robert Ciesla
September 2021
Beginner
173 pages
3h 46m
English
Apress
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R. CieslaProgramming Basicshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7286-2_1

1. Wet Toes: The Very Basics of Programming

Robert Ciesla1  
(1)
HELSINKI, Finland
 

What do video games, social networks, and your activity bracelet have in common? They run on software a group of (more or less) programmers wrote somewhere far, far away. Gadgets and hardware are only one, more visible side of the coin of our technology-driven societies. In this chapter, we’ll discuss the very basics of programming. We’ll also take a gander at the visible parts of digital systems: the hardware.

What Is Programming Anyway?

Basically, programming is the act of telling digital devices, such as ...

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