Archive of 2009 February

23Feb2009

Strings

1) Strings [ Up ] [ Next ] Computers are sophisticated calculators, and deal exclusively with numbers (digits).  In order to get them to cope with other types of information, we have to encode that information in a numerical (digital) way.  Let’s say that we give every letter of the alphabet a unique number, for example:

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23Feb2009

Beginners

The beginners programming tutorial is split into three sections: Part 1 Covers the very basics of programming: likely errors code flow decisions looping comments Part 2 More advanced fundamentals: strings arithmetic functions variables imports Part 3 A closer look at the more popular general purpose languages, and where to go from there. summary software available books availabl

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