コンピュータ・プログラムのしくみ―イラストで理解する、プログラミングの基本的な考え方 [単行本]

   コンピュータの基本的な構造やプログラムのしくみをやさしく解説した本。すべてのページにはきれいなカラーイラストが配されている。プログラミングをすでにしてる人、これからしたい人だけでなく、なんとなくパソコンの動作に納得がいかないという人にもおすすめ。（2003年7月号)

Just as children must learn the alphabet before they can read, future programmers must understand certain concepts before they can write their first program. This unique book uses full-color illustrations to help you truly understand the underlying computer science on which all programming is based.

Veteran programmer Dan Appleman provides a comprehensive, easy-to-understand explanation of computer programming, starting from a basic description of what a computer language is to coverage of how Internet programming works. The book shows you how to turn ideas into code and how to use algorithms to accomplish common tasks, and describes the basic function of compilers and interpreters.

What you’ll learn

Who this book is for

Curious readers of any age will find an accessible yet comprehensive explanation of a field that has revolutionized the way we live and work.

--このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

これを読み終えたら、コンピュータ・プログラミングの全体と、コンピュータ言語が基本にしている多くのコンセプトは理解していることだろう…。プログラミングにかかわるすべての人に贈る、フルカラーの解説書。

Imagine, for a moment, a guy. This guy, about 40 years old, has worked all of his life in a job that doesn't require much knowledge of computers, certainly not of how to write software. Now, imagine that our guy decides to change career paths and learn computer programming. He goes and buys a book about a programming language, perhaps one that promotes itself as elementary. The book presents our hapless guy with recipes that he can follow, it's true, but mostly it confuses him with talk of APIs, linked lists, hashes, and a mess of other stuff that he doesn't understand, really. "I can make it all work by following directions," our guy implores into the Void. "But I don't understand what I'm doing." This guy needs How Computer Programming Works.

In this book, Daniel Appleman sets out to explain computer programming at a conceptual level, and succeeds admirably. Appleman ignores the peculiar characteristics of specific programming languages (leaving them for specialized books), and instead uses fantastic color illustrations and lucid text to explain what goes unsaid among professional programmers. He also uses pseudocode--a sort of standardized, generic programming language--and examples in BASIC to back up his points. Although Appleman approaches programming mainly from a procedural angle (the book would be better with more coverage of object-oriented programming techniques, which fundamentally are different, in many cases), the contents of this book will suit any beginning student of programming and computer science--our guy included. --David Wall

Topics covered:

• Aspects of computer programming that you must understand in order to write code, but that generally are not explained conceptually in language-specific programming books
• Variables
• Loops
• Pointers
• Arrays
• Code blocks
• Stacks
• Trees
• Other fundamental building blocks
• Critical algorithms, like the bubble sort
• Getting from specification to finished product
• Network programming

--このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

Consider, for a moment, a guy. This guy, about 40 years old, has worked all his life in a job that doesn't require much knowledge of computers, certainly not of how to write software. Now imagine that our guy decides to change career paths and learn computer programming. He goes and buys a book about a programming language, perhaps one that promotes itself as elementary. The book presents our hapless guy with recipes that he can follow, it's true, but it mostly confuses him with talk of APIs, linked lists, hashes and a whole lot of other stuff he doesn't really understand. "I can make it all work by following directions", our guy implores into the Void, "But I don't understand what I'm doing". This guy needs How Computer Programming Works.

In this book, Daniel Appleman sets out to explain computer programming at a conceptual level, and he succeeds admirably. He ignores the peculiar characteristics of specific programming languages (leaving them for specialised books) and instead uses fantastic colour illustrations and lucid text to explain what goes unsaid among professional programmers. He also uses pseudocode--a sort of standardised, generic programming language--and examples in BASIC to back up his points. Though Appleman approaches programming from a mainly procedural angle (the book would be better with more coverage of object-oriented programming techniques, which are fundamentally different in many cases), the contents of this book will suit any beginning student of programming and computer science, our guy included. --David Wall --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

Just as a child must learn the alphabet before they can read, future programmers must understand certain concepts before they can write their first program. This unique book uses full color illustrations to help the reader to truly understand the underlying computer science on which all programming is based.

- A useful book for future programmers or anyone interested in explaining important computer programming concepts.
- Full color illustrations help to visually explain important topics!
- New expanded section on computer programming for the Internet.
--このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

Daniel Appleman is the president of Desaware Inc., a developer of add-on products and components for Microsoft Visual Studio, including SpyWorks, StateCoder, and the NT Service Toolkit for .NET languages and VB6. He is a cofounder of Apress, a publishing company specializing in high-quality professional level books for computer programmers and IT professionals. He is the author of numerous books, including Moving to VB .NET: Strategies, Concepts and Code, How Computer Programming Works, and Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API, and he is the author of a series of eBooks on .NET-related topics. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

アップルマン,ダニエル
マイクロソフト社の開発環境Visual Studio用のアドオン・コンポーネント(ソフトウェア部品)を制作・販売する米国Desaware社社長兼プログラマ。テクニカル・ライターとしても知名度は高く、その著作は世界中のソフトウェア開発者の間で広く読まれている

矢沢 久雄
株式会社ヤザワ取締役社長。グレープシティ株式会社アドバイザリースタッフ。電脳ライター友の会会長兼事務局長。パッケージソフトの開発と販売に従事するかたわら、書籍や雑誌記事の執筆、セミナーやカンファレンスにおける講演活動も精力的に行っている。お客様の満足を何よりも大事にする自称「ソフトウェア芸人」

小林 敦子
翻訳者、ライター。Webや雑誌、単行本を中心に、翻訳とライティングを行う。コンピュータからファッションまで、幅広いジャンルを手掛けている(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)