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Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive, Fourth Edition
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Manufacturer: Course Technology
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781418836337
ISBN: 1418836338
Label: Course Technology
Manufacturer: Course Technology
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 744
Publication Date: 2006-01-24
Publisher: Course Technology
Studio: Course Technology
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Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive, Fourth Edition provides the beginning programmer with a guide to developing structured program logic.
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Summary: College Students Need the INTRODUCTORY Version, NOT COMPREHENSIVE Version!
Comment: If you are looking to buy this for a college class, BE VERY CAREFUL because there is a confusing difference between the COMPREHENSIVE version and the INTRODUCTORY version.
The INTRODUCTORY version has a secret password packaged on the back cover, so that college students must enter that password code online to get at the assignments, and the INTRODUCTORY version is under 400 pages.
The COMPREHENSIVE version is over 700 pages, and it does NOT include the secret password code, but has a completely different CD that is not part of class assignments.
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Summary: START HERE to learn computer programing
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Computer programing is a rabidly growing career field, and will be for some time to come. So if you want to learn how to program, I recommend that you start here and develop a SOLID foundation for what ever language you wish to learn.
This book will make learning any and all other languages much simpler and will even help to open your repertoire to many programing languages and applications.
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Summary: Not a good book
Comment: This book is a noble attempt at teaching the concepts of computer programming without going into the specifics of any language. Unfortunately, it is either an insurmountable task or the author has simply failed. The author apparently tries to stay language-neutral by misusing terms (oh, just minor things such as "module" and "procedural programming") which have completely different meanings in the real world. As a result, the book is filled with errors and misleading terminology.
Being a semi-experienced programmer, I have been able to sift through the garbage and extract some useful information; however, I pity the soul who gets dropped into an "Introduction to Programming" class with this book as the main tool for learning.
I have given three stars because there is actually a lot of knowledge to be gained from the book. It is just very, very poorly presented. The worst part is that it APPEARS to be a wonderful book until you actually read what it says and compare it to reality.
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Summary: A must buy
Comment: I was delightfully surprised at the level of detail used in this book. As a working professional, student, and busy mom I have never taken the time to review an item on Amazon.com's website - and I have quite a substantial library of technical books acquired over the past 13 years, many items purchased through Amazon.com. However, I had to take a moment to review THIS BOOK.
As a self taught programmer, I found mastering the syntax of a language very simple. Naturally, I initially thought understanding the semantics of a language would be enough to succeed in it professionally. I worked in an IT department as an analyst and found coding in this home-grown system to be quite rewarding.
However, I found myself transitioning to another company after my department was relocated to a different state and quickly realized that understanding a language is not enough, as a specific language such as C, Perl, C++, or Java is simply a tool - to a programmer used to solve a given problem at hand.
I pursued formal education as ran across the second edition of this book a few years ago as the required text for a Logic/Design class. As a professional programmer, lifetime learner, and student who is passionate about the "art" of programming I can tell you the 3rd edition is a wonderful book (a complete revision of the 2nd edition with insight into OOP, which unlike many other logic/design books walks you through the analysis, design, and development of complete programs - including array manipulation, sequential file manipulation, data dictionary - METADATA design, advanced modularization techniques - as must have skill (ex. most of the report applications I work on are hundreds of lines of code, are composed of various modules, and include calls to mutiple external subroutines - so being able to understand the hierarchy, calling, and called modules of a large complex routine is important is creating, modifying, and/or maintaining it ), control breaks, menus, data validation, event driven programming, and system modeling) that will not only greatly improve your success as a programmer (student or professional), it will guide you on a path as both a logical and critical thinker - critical skills to succeed in life and programming!
Good luck on your "programming" travels. For me, this book was a great investment and money well spent.
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