Beginning programming for dummies / Wallace Wang.

Prat I: Programming a computer
Chapter 1: Learning computer programming for the first time
Chapter 2: All about programming languages
Chapter 3: How to writ a program
Chapter 4: The tools of a computer programmer

Part II Learning Programming with QBASIC
Chapter 5: Getting your Hands on A real language: QBASIC
Chapter 6: Handling input and output
Chapter 7: Variables, constants and comments
Chapter 8: Crunching numbers and playing with strings
Chapter 9: Making decisions with control statements
Chapter 10: Repeating yourself with loops

Part III Advanced QBASIC programming
Chapter 11: Writing large programs using subroutine and functions
Chapter 12: Making pretty graphic and obnoxious noises
Chapter 13: Saving and retrieving stuff in files
Chapter 14: Debugging your QBSIC programs

Part IV Dealing with data structures
Chapter 15: Storing stuff in arrays
Chapter 16: Lumping related data in records
Chapter 17: Linked lists and pointers
Chapter 18: Playing with object-oriented programming

Part V Algorithms: Telling the computer what to do
Chapter 19: Sorting
Chapter 20: Searching
Chapter 21: Optimizing your code

Part VI Internet programming
Chapter 22: Playing with HTML
Chapter 23: Making interactive Web pages with Java script
Chapter 24: Using Java Applets in pages

Part VII: The part of tens
Chapter 25: Ten cool programming careers
Chapter 26: Ten additional programming resources

Index : p. 369-384