Chapter 2. Building Blocks – Variables, Collections, and Flow Control
One of the coolest things about programming is the way that concepts build on each other. If you've never programmed anything before, even the most basic app can seem very complex. The reality is that, if you analyze everything going on in an app down to the ones and zeros flowing through the processor, it is incredibly complex. However, every aspect of using a computer is an abstraction. When you use an app, the complexity of the programming is being abstracted away for you. Learning to program is just going one level deeper in making a computer work for you.
As you learn the basic concepts behind programming, they will become second nature and this will free your mind to grasp ...
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