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Fundamentals for Self-Taught Programmers

You're reading from   Fundamentals for Self-Taught Programmers Embark on your software engineering journey without exhaustive courses and bulky tutorials

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801812115
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jasmine Greenaway Jasmine Greenaway
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Preface 1. Part 1: Software Engineering Basics
2. Chapter 1: Defining Software Engineering FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Software Engineering Life Cycle 4. Chapter 3: Roles in Software Engineering 5. Part 2: Introduction to Programming
6. Chapter 4: Programming Languages and Introduction to C# 7. Chapter 5: Writing Your First C# Program 8. Chapter 6: Data Types in C# 9. Chapter 7: Flow Control in C# 10. Chapter 8: Introduction to Data Structures, Algorithms, and Pseudocode 11. Chapter 9: Applying Algorithms in C# 12. Chapter 10: Object-Oriented Programming 13. Part 3: Software Engineering – the Profession
14. Chapter 11: Stories from Prominent Job Roles in Software Development 15. Chapter 12: Coding Best Practices 16. Chapter 13: Tips and Tricks to Kickstart Your Software Engineering Career 17. Assessments 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Planning with pseudocode

Have you ever tried to plan out your day before starting to do the things you plan to do? Think about whether you have ever done this for a large trip or whether you do so every day when you start work at your job. Planning helps you prepare for what’s to come and, in many cases, can make things such as your trip or workday successful. Programmers sometimes need to do this for complex problems they’re trying to solve. Pseudocode enables you to plan out the task you’re attempting to accomplish by writing out the computational steps in English, or any other preferred language. With no programming language, you can freely plan and document how you plan for your program to run, step by step. Unlike programming syntax, there is no “right” way to write pseudocode, and there are many guides on how to write it well, but a general rule of thumb is to not to introduce actual code into your pseudocode; save it for the actual program...

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