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Discover the Ballerina programming language for next-generation microservices and native cloud application development. This book shows you that Ballerina is a cutting-edge programming language, which incorporates many of the latest technological advancements in programming language theory. You´ll learn variables and types, modules and functions, flow control, error handling, concurrency, I/O, cloud/network programming, persistence and data access, security and more.
Additionally, Beginning Ballerina Programming introduces many foundation computer science topics along the way and doesn´t assume much prior knowledge. For example, when introducing transport-level security, you will get a brief introduction to public-key cryptography, how it is different from private-key cryptography, and why we need it. This provides an added bonus for you to learn something new and general in computer science.
After reading and using this book, you´ll be proficient with Ballerina and cloud-first programming and apply these concepts and techniques to your next cloud application developments.

What You´ll Learn

Start programming with Ballerina
Gain the basics of network communication and programming
Obtain a solid understanding of services/API development and resilient communication
Discover cloud-native technologies using Ballerina
Deploy to the cloud using Ballerina

Who This Book Is For
Absolute beginners in computer programming: No prior experience with computer programming is expected. This can also be a reference book for experienced developers in other languages, who want to learn a modern programming language.

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Chapter 1 - Variables and Types Chapter 2 - Flow Control Chapter 3 - Modules and Functions Chapter 4 - Error Handling Chapter 5 - Concurrency Chapter 6 - Files and I/O Chapter 7 - Programming the Network Chapter 8 - Security Chapter 9 - Database Programming

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