Kids Can Program Too!

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PART ONE - Who's Who In Hardware and Software

Preface Who Needs Another Book On Programming? It's Not Only What You Learn, It's Also How You Learn! You'll Get There, Step By Step This Is What The Symbols Mean Text Examples
Where Do Hardware And Software Live? Adventures In The Park - A Look Into The Hardware CPU - The Real Brain Memory - The Brain's Immediate Storage Disks - For Long-Term And Large Quantities Peripheral Devices - Monitors, Keyboards, Mice, Printers, Scanners, Modems, And More User Interface Communications Input Output Listen To The Man Behind The Curtain - The Software Makes It All Happen The `Essence' Of Programming Stored Programs Machine And Assembly Languages High-Level Languages Assemblers, Compilers And Interpreters Assemblers Compilers Interpreters Virtual Machines The Operating System Going In And Out - Input/Output Services Getting Organized - Files And Folders Timing Is Everything - Scheduling
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PART TWO - Programming Boot Camp

Preface Who Needs Another Book On Programming? It's Not Only What You Learn, It's Also How You Learn! You'll Get There, Step By Step This Is What The Symbols Mean Text Examples
The Elements Of Programming Putting A Program Together Your Very First Program! Anything To Declare? - Setting Up The Parts And Tools Making A Statement - Writing Down The Directions Comments Tokens And White Spaces More Simple Programs A Plain Calculator An Interactive Calculator It Takes All Kinds - Types, Values And Variables Types And Values Literals, Variables And Constants Literals Variables Constants All Together Now: Literals, Variables And Constants Arrays One-Dimensional Arrays Multi-Dimensional Arrays Arraying It All For Review Strings References Smooth Operators - Manipulating Values And Variables Commence Operations - Introductions To Operators Operands And Values Unary And Binary Operators Numerical Operators Basic Arithmetic Operators The Remainder Operator The Increment And Decrement Operators Let's Operate Numerically Together Relational Operators Logical Operators Bit And Shift Operators The Concatenation Operator The Conditional Operator When Things Go Wrong - Truncation And Overflow Express Yourself - Using Expressions Expression Evaluation Not All Operators Are Equal - Precedence And Parentheses Truncation And Overflow Strike Again Your Evaluation, Please Assignments Compound Assignments Chained And Embedded Assignments And Your Assignment Is Mixed-Type Expressions - Promotions, Conversions And Casts Promotions And Conversions Casts Mixed Results Let's Put All This To Some Simple Uses Volume And Surface Area Pyramid-In-A-Prism Stuffed Cone Age Validation It's A Matter Of Control - Using Control Statements What If - Conditional Execution While You Can - Repetitive Execution For Now And Again - Loop Control Take A Break Continue, Please Make The Switch - Selective Execution Some More Serious Programs Sort Median And Average Values Multiplication Table A Better Calculator Stay Organized - Using Statements And Blocks Playing With Blocks - Grouping Statements On The Scope - Visibility Of Variables It's How You Function - Using Functions Or Methods The Structure Of A Function The Simple Truth About Simple Functions Throwing A Pass - Passing Arguments Functions With No Value Where Functions Can Be Found An Example Function (Sort of...) Overloading A Function Can We Talk? - Input And Output When You Have Something To Say - Output Decimal Notation Scientific Notation Formatting Using Patterns Output To Files Listen To Others - Input Finally, Real Programs The Grades Report Let's Play Checkers
The Nitty-Gritty Details How To Install The Software You Need Text Editor The Java Environment How To Type, Compile And Run A Program Typing And Editing Source Code Compiling A Program Running A Program How To Tackle Errors Syntax Errors Logic Errors Debugging
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PART THREE - Object Oriented Programming

Preface Who Needs Another Book On Programming? It's Not Only What You Learn, It's Also How You Learn! You'll Get There, Step By Step This Is What The Symbols Mean Text Examples
Object Fundementals Every Object Is, Well, An Object What's In An Object Some Big Words - Encapsulation, Polymorphism, Inheritance In A Class Of Its Own - The Making Of An Object Class Taking Attendance - Class Members For Instance - Class Instantiation The Right To Privacy - Public And Private Members There Must Be A Method To This Madness - Class Methods Constructors Attributes Access Other Methods Classic Classes - A Few Built-In Classes Strings Numbers Files And Streams Head Of The Class - Some Sample Classes The Box The Train Objectively Speaking - Your First Object-Oriented Programs Example 1 Example 2
The Nitty-Gritty Details How To Install The Software You Need Text Editor The Java Environment How To Type, Compile And Run A Program Typing And Editing Source Code Compiling A Program Running A Program How To Tackle Errors Syntax Errors Logic Errors Debugging
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