Learning to Program by Foote, Steven -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

About This eBook Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents at a Glance Table of Contents Acknowledgments About the Author We Want to Hear from You! Reader Services Introduction: Why I Wrote This Book

Why You Should Read This Book Your Project

1. “Hello, World!” Writing Your First Program

Choose a Text Editor

Core Features

Making Your Choice

Sublime Text TextMate Notepad++ Gedit Vim Eclipse IntelliJ Xcode Visual Studio

Create a Project Directory Start Small: Create a Test File

How HTML and JavaScript Work Together in a Browser The Value of Small Changes

Build on Your Success

Reference Your JavaScript in manifest.json Let It Run!

Great Power, Great Responsibility Summing Up

2. How Software Works

What Is “Software”? Software Life Cycle Source Code—Where It All Starts

A Set of Instructions Programming Languages From Source Code to 0’s and 1’s Compiled vs. Interpreted Languages: When Does the Source Code Become Binary? Runtime Environment Execution by the Processor

Input and Output

Making Software Useful (and Reusable) with Input Where Does the Input Come From? How the Software Gets the Input Types of Output GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out State Add State to Kittenbook

Memory and Variables

Variables Variable Storage A Finite Resource Memory Leaks

Summing Up

3. Getting to Know Your Computer

Your Computer Is Stupid Your Computer Is Magic

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Computer Guts

Processor Short-Term Memory Long-Term Memory

Using Your Computer

The File System The Command Line: Take Control

Summing Up

4. Build Tools

Automate (Almost) Everything

Install Node Install Grunt Software That Helps You Create Software Avoid Mistakes Work Faster

Tasks to Automate

Compile Test Package Deploy

Build Your Own Build

Gruntfile.js Use Grunt Plug-ins Load Grunt Plug-ins Register Tasks

Watch This! Summing Up

5. Data (Types), Data (Structures), Data(bases)

Data Types

Why Different Data Types Exist Primitive Data Types Composite Data Types Dynamically and Statically Typed Languages

Data Structures

Set Stack Tree Graph How to Choose an Effective Data Structure

Databases

Long-Term (Persistent) Storage Relational Databases A Brief Introduction to SQL

Summing Up

6. Regular Expressions

Ctrl+F on Steroids: Looking for Patterns Using Regular Expressions in JavaScript Repetition

? + * Special Characters and Escaping {1,10}: Make Your Own Super Powers Match Anything, Period Don’t Be Greedy

Understanding Brackets from [A-Za-z]

Lists of Characters Ranges Negation

A Pattern for Phone Numbers I Need My \s

Shortcuts for Brackets Limitations Capture the Tag Advanced Find and Replace The Beginning and the End (of a Line)

Flags

Global Ignore Case Multiline

When Will You Ever Use Regex?

grep Code Refactoring Validation Data Extraction

Summing Up

7. if, for, while, and When

Operators

Comparison Operators Logical Operators Unary Operators Binary Operators Ternary Operators “Truthy” and “Falsy” “Syntactic Sugar” Looping Through an Array Looping Through Images Nested Loops You Need a Break Infinite Loops Take Another Break When You Don’t Know When to Stop

When

Events Listeners Cron Jobs Timeouts Catch When Things Go Wrong Writing Robust Code

Summing Up

8. Functions and Methods

Function Structure

Definition Invocation Arguments Call Stack

Code Encapsulation

Do One Thing Well Divide and Conquer A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place

Code Reuse

Solve the General Problem Do More with Less Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY)

Scope

Global Local How Variable Lookups Happen

Summing Up

9. Programming Standards

Coding Conventions

Setting Standards To Hack or Not to Hack Pay Now or Pay Later Writing Maintainable Code

Code Formatting

Keep It Consistent Whitespace

It Doesn’t Happen on Its Own: Make Rules Using the Work of Others

Build Faster Open Source Software Built by the Community When to Build It Yourself

Best Practices

Documentation Planning Testing

Summing Up

10. Documentation

Document Intentions

Self-Documenting Code Don’t Document the Obvious The Danger of Outdated Documentation Find Bugs Using Documentation

Document for Yourself

How Good Is Your Memory? Document to Learn Documentation Beyond Comments

Document for Others

Document Your Decisions Document Your Resources Document to Teach

Summing Up

11. Planning

Think Before You Build Create a Specification Design an Architecture

Draw Diagrams Try to Break Your System

Iterative Planning Design for Extensibility What Are Your Priorities?

User Experience Performance Security Scalability Deadlines

The Balancing Act

Identify and Create Constraints Know What You Can and Can’t Do

Summing Up

12. Testing and Debugging

Manual Testing

Test As You Work Try Something Crazy Eat Your Own Dog Food

Automated Testing

Unit Tests Set Up Tests for Kittenbook Epic Fail! Spies Like Us (and We Like Spies)

Integration Tests

Catch Problems Early

Debugging

Errors Logs Breakpoints Inspecting, Watching, and the Console Stepping Through the Code Call Stack Find the Root Cause Code, Test, Debug, Repeat

Summing Up

13. Learning to Fish: How to Acquire a Lifetime of Programming Knowledge

How to Search

Finding the Right Terms Working Backward Identifying Quality Resources Personal Blogs: Hidden Gems

Where, When, and How to Ask Programming Questions

Where When How Learn by Teaching

Summing Up

14. Building Your Skills

Make kittenbook Your Own

Restyle Facebook Add New Functionality Share Your Version of Kittenbook

Find Your Own Project

Solve Your Own Problem Be Ambitious Get Help, Give Help

Open Source Projects

GitHub Finding a Project Different Ways to Contribute Create Your Own

Free Online Education

Project Euler Udacity Coursera codecademy Khan Academy Tutorials

Paid Education

Read a Book Udacity and Coursera Treehouse

Summing Up

15. Advanced Topics

Version Control

Why Use Version Control? Working with a Team Subversion Git

OOP (Object-Oriented Programming)

Classes Inheritance Instances

Design Patterns

Pub Sub Mediator Singleton

Summing Up

Glossary Index Code Snippets

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