作者：Chris Pine
出版日期：March 28, 2009
出版社：其它
页数：200
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1934356360 ISBN-13: 978-1934356364
文件格式：PDF

Computers are everywhere, on every desk, in your iPod, cell phone,and PDA. To live well in the 21st century, you need to know how to makecomputers do things. And to really make computers do what you want, youhave to learn to program.
Fortunately, that’s easier now than ever before. Chris Pine’s bookwill teach you how to program. You’ll learn to use your computerbetter, to get it to do what you want it to do. Starting with small,simple one-line programs to calculate your age in seconds, you’ll seehow to advance to fully structured, real programs. You’ll learn thesame technology used to drive modern dynamic websites and large,professional applications.
It’s now easier to learn to write your own computer software than ithas ever been before. Now everyone can learn to write programs forthemselves—no previous experience is necessary. Chris takes a thorough,but light-hearted approach that teaches you how to program with aminimum of fuss or bother.
About the Author
Chris Pine first discovered the programming language Ruby in early 2001and immediately began using it to build tools for his day job:programming computer games. After hours, he volunteered with giftedchildren teaching them advanced mathematics. With Ruby, he began toteach his students programming as well. Once he saw how easily hisstudents learned advanced programming concepts in this environment, hedecided to expand his teaching materials into a book.
Chris enjoys board games and juggling, and lives with his darlingwife and two darling children in darling Oslo, Norway. He is very happy.