Re: Good Intro to Programming book?

[Mike Collier - SSG <MikeCol -at- SBSERVICES -dot- COM>]

Jennifer,

See if you can still find  Absolute Beginner's Guide To Programming by
Greg Perry (SAMS Publishing, ISBN 0-672-30269-1). It was $19.95 in 1993
(first edition). Its QBasic examples make it seem a little dated (maybe
there are newer editions), but it spends a lot of time covering very
basic concepts (e.g., 25 pages devoted to a chapter called "What Is A
Program?"

I also think Schaum's Outlines are a very good value. You may have to go
to a college bookstore to find them. They're meant to be used with a
classroom course, I guess, but the one I have for C++ is 400+ pages,
covers all of the important concepts, and has exercises with answers.
And you can't beat the price: $13.95. In addition to C++ there are
outlines for Assembly, C, Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, and Basic.

Good luck!


Michael Collier
mikecol -at- sbservices -dot- com
SOFTBANK Services Group
Buffalo, NY
http://www.sbservices.com

>
>Anyone know of a GOOD intro to programming book? The ones at my =
>community library are all ancient, and I don't want to shell out $60+ =
>for a book that won't help me learn because it's either too advanced or =
>two "out-there".
>
>Thanks!
>
>Jennifer Jelinek
>jlkraus -at- ametekwater -dot- com=20
>
>

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