The go-to guide for learning coding from the ground-up
Adding some coding know-how to your skills can help launch a new career or bolster an old one. Coding All-in-One For Dummies offers an ideal starting place for learning the languages that make technology go. This edition gets you started with a helpful explanation of how coding works and how it’s applied in the real-world before setting you on a path toward writing code for web building, mobile application development, and data analysis. Add coding to your skillset for your existing career, or begin the exciting transition into life as a professional developer—Dummies makes it easy.
Learn coding basics and how to apply them
Analyze data and automate routine tasks on the job
Get the foundation you need to launch a career as a coder
Add HTML, JavaScript, and Python know-how to your resume
This book serves up insight on the basics of coding, designed to be easy to follow, even if you’ve never written a line of code in your life. You can do this.
By:
Chris Minnick
Imprint: Wiley
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd Edition
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 188mm,
Spine: 53mm
Weight: 1.247kg
ISBN: 9781119889564
ISBN 10: 1119889561
Pages: 912
Publication Date: 11 August 2022
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction 1 Book 1: Getting Started with Coding 5 Chapter 1: What Is Coding? 7 Chapter 2: Programming for the Web 19 Chapter 3: Becoming a Programmer 33 Book 2: Basic Web Coding 43 Chapter 1: Exploring Basic HTML 45 Chapter 2: Getting More Out of HTML 63 Chapter 3: Getting Stylish with CSS 79 Chapter 4: Next Steps with CSS 101 Chapter 5: Responsive Layouts with Flexbox 123 Chapter 6: Styling with Bootstrap 143 Book 3: Advanced Web Coding 159 Chapter 1: What Is JavaScript? 161 Chapter 2: Writing Your First JavaScript Program 173 Chapter 3: Working with Variables 193 Chapter 4: Understanding Arrays 211 Chapter 5: Working with Operators, Expressions, and Statements 225 Chapter 6: Getting into the Flow with Loops and Branches 241 Chapter 7: Getting Functional 255 Chapter 8: Making and Using Objects 275 Chapter 9: Controlling the Browser with the Window Object 291 Chapter 10: Manipulating Documents with the DOM 307 Chapter 11: Using Events in JavaScript 327 Chapter 12: Integrating Input and Output 339 Chapter 13: Understanding Callbacks and Closures 355 Chapter 14: Embracing AJAX and JSON 367 Book 4: Creating Mobile Apps 383 Chapter 1: What Is Flutter? 385 Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Computer for Mobile App Development. 401 Chapter 3: “Hello” from Flutter 433 Chapter 4: Hello Again 469 Chapter 5: Making Things Happen 495 Chapter 6: Laying Things Out 527 Chapter 7: Interacting with the User 567 Chapter 8: Navigation, Lists, and Other Goodies 605 Chapter 9: Moving Right Along 653 Book 5: Getting Started with Python 675 Chapter 1: Wrapping Your Head around Python 677 Chapter 2: Installing a Python Distribution 689 Chapter 3: Working with Real Data 707 Book 6: Data Analysis with Python 729 Chapter 1: Conditioning Your Data 731 Chapter 2: Shaping Data 759 Chapter 3: Getting a Crash Course in MatPlotLib 779 Chapter 4: Visualizing the Data 795 Book 7: Career Building with Coding 813 Chapter 1: Exploring Coding Career Paths 815 Chapter 2: Exploring Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees 829 Chapter 3: Training on the Job 843 Chapter 4: Coding Career Myths 853 Index 861
This All-in-One includes work by expert coders and coding educators, including Chris Minnick and Eva Holland coauthors of Coding with JavaScript For Dummies; Nikhil Abraham, author of Coding For Dummies and Getting a Coding Job For Dummies; John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron, coauthors of Python for Data Science For Dummies and Machine Learning For Dummies; and Barry Burd, author of Flutter For Dummies.
