Gain insights into programming fundamentals and language evolution. Learn about code basics, variables, conditional statements, loops, functions, and error handling.

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Programming is the art and science of writing instructions that a computer can follow to accomplish a task. This course will teach you the concepts you need to know to become a computer programmer.

You’ll learn about the brief history of programming, what constitutes a computer program, and the evolution of programming languages, including the various types of applications currently being developed. Next, you’ll learn how to organize the code using modules, namespaces, and packages. You’ll then learn about the basic building blocks of a computer program and cover variable declaration and initialization, along with primitive data types. Next, you’ll cover how to change the program flow using conditional statements and learn how to use loops. You’ll finish by learning how to create functions and handle errors using exceptions.

By the end of this course, you will have a solid understanding of how computer programming works, and be well equipped to learn any programming language you want.

Computer Programming for Absolute Beginners

# Overview

The code examples in this course have, for the most part, been written using pseudocode, because the aim of this course is to give you an understanding of what programming is, rather than focusing on any particular language.

To be able to write code, you'll need to use a real language. We'll take a look at some of the more popular ones here and see how the code used in this course would translate into these languages.

The languages we'll look at are as follows:

* C++
* C#
* Java
* JavaScript
* PHP
* Python



For each language, we'll start with a short introduction.

You won't be able to start to write your very own programs just from these short examples, but you'll get a feel for these languages, and maybe seeing them like this will help you decide what language you want to learn first.

Before we look at the different languages, we'll have a couple of pseudocode examples. These examples will then be translated into the six languages mentioned above. 

Explore how to translate pseudocode examples into real programming languages including C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, and Python. Learn the basics of each language to understand their syntax and structure, helping you decide which programming language to pursue next.

Introduction to the Pseudocode translation into Real Code

Overview