Programação para todos: do zero ao básico

Abstract

This book is part of the teaching material provided in the UESPI extension course: Programming for Everyone: from ZERO to the basics. The objective of this course was to teach the general community and academics how to program. The book was structured according to the course's syllabus, and as in the course, it presents an easy-to-understand language and presents the concepts using themes from the reader's daily life. The book is divided into three parts: Thinking Computationally (Part I), Knowing the Basic Commands (Part II) and Changing the Program Flow (Part III).

In Part I, Thinking Computationally, the reader is invited to see how computing is immersed in everyday life and how to start working on computational thinking based on mathematical logic. This part presents the ways of representing algorithms: narrative description, flowchart and pseudocode.

In Part II, Getting to Know the Basic Commands, the basic tools are presented to start taking algorithms off paper and transforming them into computer programs. The types of data stored and read by the program and how to perform this data reading and writing procedure will be introduced. In this part, the JavaScript programming language will be used to execute programs within a cloud programming environment, called Replit.

In Part III, Changing the Program Flow, the basic ways to change the flow of a program will be presented, such as: conditional commands and repetition commands. Essential elements to promote the dynamism of the computational solution and user interaction in the program. The flows are presented in a very natural way so that the reader can abstract their use.

In this book, the author talks to the reader during the reading process and guides them on the programming journey. He also presents exercises and solutions. The video lessons from the course have also been inserted (https://bit.ly/dozeroaobasico) to be used in conjunction with the work.