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Prelude to Programming provides beginning students with a language-independent framework for learning core programming concepts and effective design techniques. This approach gives students the foundation they need to understand the logic behind program design and to establish effective programming skills. The Fifth Edition offers students a lively and accessible presentation as they learn core programming concepts - including data types, control structures, data files and arrays, and program design techniques such as top-down modular design and proper program documentation and style. Problem-solving skills are developed when students learn how to use basic programming tools and algorithms, which include data validation, defensive programming, calculating sums and averages, and searching and sorting lists. A copy of the RAPTOR flow-charting software is included with the Fifth Edition.
Table of Content
1. An Introduction to Programming
2. Developing a Program
3. Selection Structures: Making Decisions
4. Repetition Structures: Looping
5. More about Loops and Decisions
6. Arrays: Lists and Tables
7. Program Modules, Subprograms, and Functions
8. Sequential Data Files
9. An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
Appendix A: Decimal, Binary, and Hexadecimal Representation
Appendix B: Integer Representation
Appendix C: Introduction to RAPTOR
Salient Features
• Flexible presentation:
- A language-independent introduction to programming.
- Appropriate for Pre-Programming and Introductory Programming courses in community colleges, 4-year colleges, and universities
• Presentation of program design techniques, such as top-down modular design and proper program documentation and style
• Introduction of basic programming tools and algorithms - Includes data validation, defensive programming, calculating sums and averages, and searching and sorting lists
• Focus on Problem Solving sections - Present a programming problem, analyze it, design a program to solve it, discuss coding considerations, and describe how the program could be tested
• A wealth of in-chapter exercises that test immediate understanding of concepts just covered
• A variety of end-of-chapter exercises for further reinforcement of concepts studied
ISBN - 9789332518766
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Pages : 540
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