Programming languages are no different to other languages such as English or French or Spanish. The way they are learnt is the same. This ancient method, which has been perfected over hundreds of years, is called "look at examples and practice the language for the rest of your life".
That sounds like a lot of hard work, and that's because it is. For example, if English is your mother tongue, you do not notice the mental capacity that is required to make those sentences pour out onto the page: you practice it every single day, of course it should be easy!
Now, go ahead and pick up a beginner book on Spanish: it is certainly not impossible to learn the language, if you start slowly and proceed to harder texts and exercise books once you are comfortable with the basics.
If you have tried to learn a programming language, such as C, you might have encountered the following problem: you understand the syntax of the language , but when it comes to actually writing a program that does something useful, you do not know where to begin!
If you are reading this in a cafe, I guarantee that this book will cost you less than that coffee in your hand (if somebody knows a place where you can get a cup of coffee for less than 2 dollars, please let me know!).
This is a:
1-A book that starts from teaching you how to print characters to the screen to writing your very own game, complete with the game code of course.
2-A book with over 3000 lines of code.
3-A book with over 100 individual code snippets, called Listings
4-A book that covers the basic concepts of the C language in detail.
5-A book that explains the reasoning behind the included code.
6-A book that only uses "scanf" in the introduction section
7-A book that has been carefully organised by difficulty, making sure that when you encounter a new concept, you are ready to tackle it.
If you ever wanted to learn programming, this book will certainly get you started.
That sounds like a lot of hard work, and that's because it is. For example, if English is your mother tongue, you do not notice the mental capacity that is required to make those sentences pour out onto the page: you practice it every single day, of course it should be easy!
Now, go ahead and pick up a beginner book on Spanish: it is certainly not impossible to learn the language, if you start slowly and proceed to harder texts and exercise books once you are comfortable with the basics.
If you have tried to learn a programming language, such as C, you might have encountered the following problem: you understand the syntax of the language , but when it comes to actually writing a program that does something useful, you do not know where to begin!
If you are reading this in a cafe, I guarantee that this book will cost you less than that coffee in your hand (if somebody knows a place where you can get a cup of coffee for less than 2 dollars, please let me know!).
This is a:
1-A book that starts from teaching you how to print characters to the screen to writing your very own game, complete with the game code of course.
2-A book with over 3000 lines of code.
3-A book with over 100 individual code snippets, called Listings
4-A book that covers the basic concepts of the C language in detail.
5-A book that explains the reasoning behind the included code.
6-A book that only uses "scanf" in the introduction section
7-A book that has been carefully organised by difficulty, making sure that when you encounter a new concept, you are ready to tackle it.
If you ever wanted to learn programming, this book will certainly get you started.
