Table of Contents

1. First Things First 2. Variables: The Holders of Information 3. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Operators 4. Programming: Its Now or Never 5. Design: Best to start here 6. True or False: The Basis For All Decisions 7. Loops or How to Spin Effectively 8. Function Calls. Thats What its All About. Get Somebody Else to do the Work 9. Using Functions in Graphics 10. Running Out of Holders? Its Time for the Array. 11. The Matrix - Before The Movie... 12. Debugging: More important than you think... 13. But What if Things are Different? Structures/Records and Fields. 14. Objects and Classes: Being Organized is Better Than Not 15. Dealing With the Outside World: Files. 16. Pointers: Who is Looking at Whom? 17. Searching: Did you Find it Yet? 18. Lets Put Things in Order: Sorting 19. Recursion: Calling Yourself Over and Over Again 20. HTML: High Level Languages and Why They Are So Easy! 21. C++ 22. JAVA

About the Author

Mary Farrell teaches computer science, mathematics, and Japanese at Boston College High School, where she has been teaching for the past 17 years. She is an avid learner of spoken languages as well as computer languages and travels frequently to practice. She lives south of Boston, Massachusetts.

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1. First Things First 2. Variables: The Holders of Information 3. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Operators 4. Programming: It's Now or Never 5. Design: Best to start here 6. True or False: The Basis For All Decisions 7. Loops or How to Spin Effectively 8. Function Calls. That's What it's All About. Get Somebody Else to do the Work 9. Using Functions in Graphics 10. Running Out of Holders? It's Time for the Array. 11. The Matrix - Before The Movie... 12. Debugging: More important than you think... 13. But What if Things are Different? Structures/Records and Fields. 14. Objects and Classes: Being Organized is Better Than Not 15. Dealing With the Outside World: Files. 16. Pointers: Who is Looking at Whom? 17. Searching: Did you Find it Yet? 18. Let's Put Things in Order: Sorting 19. Recursion: Calling Yourself Over and Over Again 20. HTML: High Level Languages and Why They Are So Easy! 21. C++ 22. JAVA