Coding for Dummies
Hands-on exercises help you learn to code like a pro No coding experience is required for Coding For Dummies, your one-stop guide to building a foundation of knowledge in writing computer code for web, application, and software development. It doesn't matter if you've dabbled in coding or...
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John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
2015
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- Build the Airbnb Home Page -- Chapter 9: Adding in JavaScript -- What Does JavaScript Do? -- Understanding JavaScript Structure -- Using Semicolons, Quotes, Parentheses, and Braces -- Coding Common JavaScript Tasks -- Storing data with variables -- Making decisions with if-else statements -- Working with string and number methods -- Alerting users and prompting them for input -- Naming code with functions -- Adding JavaScript to the web page -- Writing Your First JavaScript Program -- Working with APIs -- What do APIs do? -- Scraping data without an API -- Researching and choosing an API -- Using JavaScript Libraries -- jQuery -- D3.js -- Searching for Videos with YouTube's API -- Part III: Putting Together a Web Application -- Chapter 10: Building Your Own App -- Building a Location-Based Offer App -- Understanding the situation -- Plotting your next steps -- Following an App Development Process -- Planning Your First Web Application -- Exploring the Overall Process -- Meeting the People Who Bring a Web App to Life -- Creating with designers -- Coding with front- and back-end developers -- Managing with product managers -- Testing with quality assurance -- Chapter 11: Researching Your First Web Application -- Dividing the App into Steps -- Finding your app's functionality -- Finding your app's functionality: My version -- Finding your app's form -- Finding your app's form: The McDuck's Offer App design -- Identifying Research Sources -- Researching the Steps in the McDuck's Offer App -- Choosing a Solution for Each Step -- Chapter 12: Coding and Debugging Your First Web Application -- Getting Ready to Code -- Coding Your First Web Application -- Development environment -- Pre-written code -- Coding steps for you to follow -- Debugging Your App -- Part IV: Developing Your Coding Skills Further -- Chapter 13: Getting Familiar with Ruby
- What Does Ruby Do? -- Defining Ruby Structure -- Understanding the principles of Ruby -- Styling and spacing -- Coding Common Ruby Tasks and Commands -- Defining data types and variables -- Computing simple and advanced math -- Using strings and special characters -- Deciding with conditionals: If, elsif, else -- Input and output -- Shaping Your Strings -- String methods: upcase, downcase, strip -- Inserting variables in strings with # -- Building a Simple Form-Text Formatter Using Ruby -- Chapter 14: Wrapping Your Head around Python -- What Does Python Do? -- Defining Python Structure -- Understanding the Zen of Python -- Styling and spacing -- Coding Common Python Tasks and Commands -- Defining data types and variables -- Computing simple and advanced math -- Using strings and special characters -- Deciding with conditionals: If, elif, else -- Input and output -- Shaping Your Strings -- Dot notation with upper(), lower(), capitalize(), and strip() -- String formatting with % -- Building a Simple Tip Calculator Using Python -- Part V: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 15: Ten Free Resources for Coding and Coders -- Learning-to-Code Websites -- Codecademy -- Coursera and Udacity -- Hackdesign.org -- Code.org -- Coding-Reference Websites -- W3Schools -- Mozilla Developer Network -- Stack Overflow -- Tech News and Community Websites -- TechCrunch -- Hacker News -- Meetup -- Chapter 16: Ten Tips for Novice Coders -- Pick a Language, Any Language -- Define a Goal -- Break Down Your Goal into Bite-Sized Steps -- Distinguish Cupcake from Frosting -- Google Is a Developer's Best Friend -- Zap Those Bugs -- Just Ship It -- Collect Feedback -- Iterate on Your Code -- Share Your Success and Failure -- Index -- About the Author -- Wiley End User License Agreement
- Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part I: Getting Started with Coding -- Chapter 1: What Is Coding? -- Defining What Code Is -- Following instructions -- Writing code with some Angry Birds -- Understanding What Coding Can Do for You -- Eating the world with software -- Coding on the job -- Scratching your own itch (and becoming rich and famous) -- Surveying the Types of Programming Languages -- Comparing low-level and high-level programming languages -- Contrasting compiled code and interpreted code -- Programming for the web -- Taking a Tour of a Web App Built with Code -- Defining the app's purpose and scope -- Standing on the shoulders of giants -- Chapter 2: Programming for the Web -- Displaying Web Pages on Your Desktop and Mobile Device -- Hacking your favorite news website -- Understanding how the World Wide Web works -- Watching out for your front end and back end -- Defining web and mobile applications -- Coding Web Applications -- Starting with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript -- Adding logic with Python, Ruby, or PHP -- Coding Mobile Applications -- Building mobile web apps -- Building native mobile apps -- Chapter 3: Becoming a Programmer -- Writing Code Using a Process -- Researching what you want to build -- Designing your app -- Coding your app -- Debugging your code -- Picking Tools for the Job -- Working offline -- Working online with Codecademy.com -- Part II: Building the Silent and Interactive Web Page -- Chapter 4: Exploring Basic HTML -- What Does HTML Do? -- Understanding HTML Structure -- Identifying elements -- Featuring your best attribute -- Standing head, title, and body above the rest -- Getting Familiar with Common HTML Tasks and Tags
- Writing headlines -- Organizing text in paragraphs -- Linking to your (heart's) content -- Adding images -- Styling Me Pretty -- Highlighting with bold, italics, underline, and strikethrough -- Raising and lowering text with superscript and subscript -- Building Your First Website Using HTML -- Chapter 5: Getting More Out of HTML -- Organizing Content on the Page -- Listing Data -- Creating ordered and unordered lists -- Nesting lists -- Putting Data in Tables -- Basic table structuring -- Stretching table columns and rows -- Aligning tables and cells -- Filling Out Forms -- Understanding how forms work -- Creating basic forms -- Practicing More with HTML -- Chapter 6: Getting Stylish with CSS -- What Does CSS Do? -- CSS Structure -- Choosing the element to style -- My property has value -- Hacking the CSS on your favorite website -- Common CSS Tasks and Selectors -- Font gymnastics: size, color, style, family, and decoration -- Customizing links -- Adding background images and styling foreground images -- Styling Me Pretty -- Adding CSS to your HTML -- Building your first web page -- Chapter 7: Next Steps with CSS -- Styling (More) Elements on Your Page -- Styling lists -- Designing tables -- Selecting Elements to Style -- Styling specific elements -- Naming HTML elements -- Aligning and Laying Out Your Elements -- Organizing data on the page -- Shaping the div -- Understanding the box model -- Positioning the boxes -- Writing More Advanced CSS -- Chapter 8: Working Faster with Twitter Bootstrap -- Figuring Out What Bootstrap Does -- Installing Bootstrap -- Understanding the Layout Options -- Lining up on the grid system -- Dragging and dropping to a website -- Using predefined templates -- Adapting layout for mobile, tablet, and desktop -- Coding Basic Web Page Elements -- Designing buttons -- Navigating with toolbars -- Adding icons
- Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Coding -- Chapter 1 What Is Coding? -- Defining What Code Is -- Following instructions -- Writing code with some Angry Birds -- Understanding What Coding Can Do for You -- Eating the world with software -- Coding on the job -- Scratching your own itch (and becoming rich and famous) -- Surveying the Types of Programming Languages -- Comparing low-level and high-level programming languages -- Contrasting compiled code and interpreted code -- Programming for the web -- Taking a Tour of a Web App Built with Code -- Defining the app's purpose and scope -- Standing on the shoulders of giants -- Chapter 2 Programming for the Web -- Displaying Web Pages on Your Desktop and Mobile Device -- Hacking your favorite news website -- Understanding how the World Wide Web works -- Watching out for your front end and back end -- Defining web and mobile applications -- Coding Web Applications -- Starting with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript -- Adding logic with Python, Ruby, or PHP -- Coding Mobile Applications -- Building mobile web apps -- Building native mobile apps -- Chapter 3 Becoming a Programmer -- Writing Code Using a Process -- Researching what you want to build -- Designing your app -- Coding your app -- Debugging your code -- Picking Tools for the Job -- Working offline -- Working online with Codecademy.com -- Part 2 Building the Silent and Interactive Web Page -- Chapter 4 Exploring Basic HTML -- What Does HTML Do? -- Understanding HTML Structure -- Identifying elements -- Featuring your best attribute -- Standing head, title, and body above the rest -- Getting Familiar with Common HTML Tasks and Tags -- Writing headlines
- Organizing text in paragraphs -- Linking to your (heart's) content -- Adding images -- Styling Me Pretty -- Highlighting with bold, italics, underline, and strikethrough -- Raising and lowering text with superscript and subscript -- Building Your First Website Using HTML -- Chapter 5 Getting More Out of HTML -- Organizing Content on the Page -- Listing Data -- Creating ordered and unordered lists -- Nesting lists -- Putting Data in Tables -- Basic table structuring -- Stretching table columns and rows -- Aligning tables and cells -- Filling Out Forms -- Understanding how forms work -- Creating basic forms -- Practicing More with HTML -- Chapter 6 Getting Stylish with CSS -- What Does CSS Do? -- CSS Structure -- Choosing the element to style -- My property has value -- Hacking the CSS on your favorite website -- Common CSS Tasks and Selectors -- Font gymnastics: size, color, style, family, and decoration -- Customizing links -- Adding background images and styling foreground images -- Styling Me Pretty -- Adding CSS to your HTML -- Building your first web page -- Chapter 7 Next Steps with CSS -- Styling (More) Elements on Your Page -- Styling lists -- Designing tables -- Selecting Elements to Style -- Styling specific elements -- Naming HTML elements -- Aligning and Laying Out Your Elements -- Organizing data on the page -- Shaping the div -- Understanding the box model -- Positioning the boxes -- Writing More Advanced CSS -- Chapter 8 Working Faster with Twitter Bootstrap -- Figuring Out What Bootstrap Does -- Installing Bootstrap -- Understanding the Layout Options -- Lining up on the grid system -- Dragging and dropping to a website -- Using predefined templates -- Adapting layout for mobile, tablet, and desktop -- Coding Basic Web Page Elements -- Designing buttons -- Navigating with toolbars -- Adding icons -- Build the Airbnb Home Page
- Chapter 9 Adding in JavaScript -- What Does JavaScript Do? -- Understanding JavaScript Structure -- Using Semicolons, Quotes, Parentheses, and Braces -- Coding Common JavaScript Tasks -- Storing data with variables -- Making decisions with if-else statements -- Working with string and number methods -- Alerting users and prompting them for input -- Naming code with functions -- Adding JavaScript to the web page -- Writing Your First JavaScript Program -- Working with APIs -- What do APIs do? -- Scraping data without an API -- Researching and choosing an API -- Using JavaScript Libraries -- jQuery -- D3.js -- Searching for Videos with YouTube's API -- Part 3 Putting Together a Web Application -- Chapter 10 Building Your Own App -- Building a Location-Based Offer App -- Understanding the situation -- Plotting your next steps -- Following an App Development Process -- Planning Your First Web Application -- Exploring the Overall Process -- Meeting the People Who Bring a Web App to Life -- Creating with designers -- Coding with front- and back-end developers -- Managing with product managers -- Testing with quality assurance -- Chapter 11 Researching Your First Web Application -- Dividing the App into Steps -- Finding your app's functionality -- Finding your app's functionality: My version -- Finding your app's form -- Finding your app's form: The McDuck's Offer App design -- Identifying Research Sources -- Researching the Steps in the McDuck's Offer App -- Choosing a Solution for Each Step -- Chapter 12 Coding and Debugging Your First Web Application -- Getting Ready to Code -- Coding Your First Web Application -- Development environment -- Pre-written code -- Coding steps for you to follow -- Debugging Your App -- Part 4 Developing Your Coding Skills Further -- Chapter 13 Getting Familiar with Ruby -- What Does Ruby Do? -- Defining Ruby Structure
- Understanding the principles of Ruby -- Styling and spacing -- Coding Common Ruby Tasks and Commands -- Defining data types and variables -- Computing simple and advanced math -- Using strings and special characters -- Deciding with conditionals: if, elsif, else -- Input and output -- Shaping Your Strings -- String methods: upcase, downcase, strip -- Inserting variables in strings with # -- Building a Simple Form-Text Formatter Using Ruby -- Chapter 14 Wrapping Your Head around Python -- What Does Python Do? -- Defining Python Structure -- Understanding the Zen of Python -- Styling and spacing -- Coding Common Python Tasks and Commands -- Defining data types and variables -- Computing simple and advanced math -- Using strings and special characters -- Deciding with conditionals: if, elif, else -- Input and output -- Shaping Your Strings -- Dot notation with upper(), lower(), capitalize(), and strip() -- String formatting with % -- Building a Simple Tip Calculator Using Python -- Part 5 The Part of Tens -- Chapter 15 Ten Free Resources for Coding and Coders -- Learning-to-Code Websites -- Codecademy -- Coursera and Udacity -- Hackdesign.org -- Code.org -- Coding-Reference Websites -- W3Schools -- Mozilla Developer Network -- Stack Overflow -- Tech News and Community Websites -- TechCrunch -- Hacker News -- Meetup -- Chapter 16 Ten Tips for Novice Coders -- Pick a Language, Any Language -- Define a Goal -- Break Down Your Goal into Bite-Sized Steps -- Distinguish Cupcake from Frosting -- Google Is a Developer's Best Friend -- Zap Those Bugs -- Just Ship It -- Collect Feedback -- Iterate on Your Code -- Share Your Success and Failure -- Index -- EULA