Ali Arya is an Associate Professor of Information Technology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2003. Ali has over 25 years of experience in professional and academic positions related to software development and information technology. He is passionate about computer programming that brings together logical and creative abilities. His work has always involved hands-on programming combined with teaching and research on various related technologies. He has developed and taught graduate and undergraduate courses on computer programming, software design, and project management. His current research focuses on the use of computer games and virtual reality in education. Before his academic career, Ali worked as software engineer, lead designer, and project manager. Ali lives in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife, son, and two cats. Despite his teaching, research, and administrative duties, he still enjoys spending hours writing code and learning new programming trends and tricks.
An excellent book that teaches programming and software development the way it should be done: independent from a specific implementation language and focusing on the main principles that are fundamental and substantive to any kind of software production.... Overall, a well-developed book that provides a comprehensive journey through the substantive topics essential to programming; I agree with the title; with the help of this book anyone can code. Given the unique strength of being agnostic to a specific language in the presentation of the central themes I wish that this book becomes a core reading text to academic institutions delivering on Computer Science and Software Development. -- Dr Marc Conrad, Principal Lecturer, University of Bedfordshire