Write Your Own Programs

This book introduces you to the world of computer programming. Little prior knowledge is needed except for starting a texteditor and typing. The text accompanies you all the way, fromfirst experiments to writing real-world programs.How does a computer work?Which components does a computer have?What is a computer program?How do I analyze problems?How do I formulate solutions in program code?This book answers all these questions by means of numerous example programs of increasing size and complexity, starting with simplecode that displays a greeting and ending with a fun video game and afull-featured text editor.