Coding for beginners in easy steps / Mike McGrath.

"Basic programming for all ages ; plain English, easy to follow, fully illustrated, in full color"--Cover.

Getting started -- Saving data -- Performing operations -- Making lists -- Controlling blocks -- Creating functions -- Sorting algorithms -- Importing libraries -- Managing text -- Programming objects -- Building interfaces -- Developing apps -- Transferring skills.

Coding for Beginners in Easy Steps instructs readers how to write code to create their own computer programs. It contains separate chapters demonstrating how to store information in data structures, how to control program flow using control structures, and how to create re-usable blocks of code in program functions. There are complete step-by-step example programs that demonstrate each aspect of coding, together with screenshots that illustrate the actual output when each program has been executed. Coding for Beginners in Easy Steps begins by explaining how to easily create a programming environment on the readers' own computer, so they can quickly begin to create their own working programs by copying the book's examples. After demonstrating the essential building blocks of computer programming it describes how to code powerful algorithms and demonstrates how to code classes for Object Oriented Programming (OOP). The examples throughout this book feature the popular Python programming language but additionally the final chapter demonstrates a comparison example in the C, C++, and Java programming languages to give the reader a rounded view of computer coding. By the end of this book, readers will have gained a sound understanding of coding and be able to write their own computer.