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Fundamentals of Microsoft® .NET Programming
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Programming languages do one very simple thing: they allow you to write programs that tell the computer what to do. You can tell a computer to read a value from the keyboard, add two numbers, save a result in a file on the hard disk, or draw a smiley face on the screen. No matter what programming language you use, the underlying commands that the computer can execute are exactly the same. Whether you use Java, C#, Microsoft Visual Basic, COBOL, LISP, or any other language, you can make the computer perform roughly the same tasks. Two languages may have very different syntaxes, and some languages make some tasks easier than others, but the fundamental operations they can perform are the same. All these languages can carry out numeric calculations and manipulate files; unfortunately, none of them can reliably pick lottery winners. (If you write a program that can, let me know!) At a more conceptual level, programming concepts have been refined over the years until most modern languages share a common set of fundamental concepts, such as variables, classes, objects, forms, menus, files, and multiprocessing. Don’t worry if you don’t know what these are—the purpose of this book is to provide more information about such terms and concepts. Because programming languages share so many operations and concepts, programming books tend to cover the same topics as well. Books about databases or graphics cover these specialized topics in great detail. Different authors may place emphasis on different subjects, but there’s a lot of overlap, particularly in beginning and general “how to program” books. Every one of these books explains what a variable is, how to create objects, and what a text file contains.
Rod Stephens - Personal Name
978-0-7356-6168-4
NONE
Information Technology
English
2011
1-265
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