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Title: Beginning Programming for Dummies by Wally Wang, Wallace Wang ISBN: 0-7645-0596-3 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.7 (27 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: OK, but...
Comment: Beginning Programming for DUMMIES by W. Wang is not all it's cracked up to be. It starts off very good, giving concise examples on how to program using Liberty BASIC. However, from the middle and towards the end the sample programs fall apart. On several examples I had to find the correct answers on the internet (by joining the Liberty Basic Yahoo group). However, if a person has never programmed anything before, this is a good book to start. But be warned that it does require some outside reference.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great for program structure -Very Helpful
Comment: I have to agree with the prior reviewers exhaustion at the pedestrian political commentary included in the text. But unlike that prior reviewer, I will extol the value to be had here in this book. I approached as a tool to understand the basics of how the various parts of a program are constructed. The book focuses on Qbasic with passing references to C++ (my ultimate goal is to use C++) and Java. Since I plan to progress rapidly to this other language I did not run afoul of the errors reported by the other reviewers because I did not input them.
I feel that I have more than adequately met my goal of learning about the "nuts and bolts" of a computer program. There is adequate depth about functions, subroutines, variables and arrays to start you on your way. There are also many tips and danger areas highlighted for the budding programmer.
I don't feel that this book is lacking with regard to the structure of programming, and I will not rate this lower because of the coding errors others have reported, but I can not give this a higher ranking because of the inane attempts at humor. Mr. Wang, a comedian you are not, keep to your day job.
Rating: 2
Summary: Lame Political slant, syntax errors but decent otherwise
Comment: I quickly tired of the authors extreme left political statements. Programming and technology should be free from politics but WANG uses almost every opportunity in his code examples to make some comment against politicans, conservatives, lawyers, wealthy people etc. Perhaps this is why there are so many syntax errors in the sample code. Keep your feelings and agenda to yourself.
Another thing that kind of got on my nerves is everytime a new concept is introduced, we scrap the previous code example and start over. I like books where we keep building on the same program, adding new buttons / menus and stuff. This way we dont start over every other page and we learn how different code and objects work together.
When I tried to use Libery Basic under XP and it didnt work, I downloaded the latest version from Liberty's website. While poking around in LB v4 I saw that they have some 6+ extensive tutorials included with the demo version. I almost feel like i could have gone through these LB tutorials and learned just as much and save the $25 I spent on this book.
This book is decent and I dont regret buying it but I can only give it 2 stars.
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours by Greg Perry ISBN: 0672323079 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: C++ for Dummies (4th Edition, Completely Revised) by Stephen Randy Davis ISBN: 076450746X Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Complete Idiot's Guide to a Career in Computer Programming by Jesse Liberty ISBN: 0789719959 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 30 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition by Greg Perry ISBN: 0789729059 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 20 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: How Computer Programming Works : by Dan Appleman ISBN: 1893115232 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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