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Get started using the C# programming language. Based on the author´s 15 years of experience teaching beginners, the book provides you with a step-by-step introduction to the principles of programming, or rather, how to think like a programmer. The task-solution approach will get you immersed, with minimum theory and maximum action.
What You Will Learn

Understand what programming is all about

Write simple, but non-trivial, programs

Become familiar with basic programming constructs such as statements, types, variables, conditions, and loops

Learn to think like a programmer and combine these programming constructs in new ways

Get to know C# as a modern, mainstream programming language, and Visual Studio as one of the world´s most popular programming tools Who This Book Is For
Those with very little or no experience in computer programming, who know how to use a computer, install a program, and navigate the web.

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Chapter 1: Getting Ready Part I: Data
Chapter 2: First Program Chapter 3: Outputs Chapter 4: Variables Chapter 5: Objects Chapter 6: Object and Actions Chapter 7: More on Objects Part II. Calculations
Chapter 8: Inputs Chapter 9: Numbers Chapter 10: Economic Calculations Chapter 11: Calculations with Dates Chapter 12: Understanding Different Kinds of Numbers Chapter 13: Accumulating Values Part III: Conditionals
Chapter 14: Essential Tools Chapter 15: Starting with Conditions Chapter 16: Practical Conditions Chapter 17: Compound Conditions Chapter 18: Multiple Conditions Chapter 19: Advanced Conditions Part IV: Loops
Chapter 20: First Loops Chapter 21: Improving Loops Chapter 22: Number Series Chapter 23: Unknown Number of Repetitions Chapter 24: Accumulating Intermediate Result Chapter 25: Advanced Loops

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Radek Vystavel started programming at a young age and has been doing it ever since, as well as sharing it with others. Greatly inspired by Lev Landau and Richard Feynman, Radek has been influenced by their desire to always search for what is the most fundamental in any given situation, and by their courage to be different. Having worked as both a programming teacher in college and privately, and as a programmer, Radek started writing books on programming because many of his students had no previous knowledge of programming and he had difficulty finding a suitable textbook for them. During the years he has gained a unique insight into what is important when teaching beginners.

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