Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming

This book is great for beginners with no programming knowledge at all. That was me and this book is very easy to follow.

This book is one of the best beginner's guides to programming. It will teach you from the very beginning point to the fundamental of programming. The book will teach you basic programming language Visual Basic and will mention C, C++, Java and Web Programming. It is wriiten quite understandable in Plain English. If you want to programm but do not know where to start this book can be your starting point. Good Luck.

Most of the reviews here, including the editorial reviews, at the time that I write this, are for the first edition. The first edition used Qbasic. This edition uses Visual Basic for the most part (so you have to own at least the learning edition). I havent read it yet, but it seems to be based still mostly on the older text (which is a good thing...) but has also taken advantage of Visual Basic's capabilities. Hopefully someone just starting out will write a review here. I give it 4 stars, but only because that is the current average. The system doesnt let you abstain from voting ;)

Well, I got this book when I was in about sixth grade when my friends seemed to be exploring BASIC, and I hadn't read it. I finally flipped through it in about 8th grade (last year) and it totally helped me! The person who said this was an insult to their intelligence obviously doesn't have much intelligence to spare. Don't listen to them! This book will teach you about basic programming. Then, if you decide to move on, all of the fundamentals are the same in BASIC as in most other computer languages! GREAT BOOK, MR. PERRY! I'm trying to get my hands on more of his books. This book, even if that one person says it's written at a sixth grade level, WHO CARES? Some people DON'T know about this stuff, and it was designed so that children who know about computers, and ARE the future programmers can understand it! I don't know how many times I'm going to say this, but GREAT BOOK!

This book teaches you nearly all of the commands in an easy simple to understand manner. I was a begginer and knew nothing at all about programing anything after this from my standpoint i knew alot