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Break Into The Programming Business

The world of programming for entrepreneurs and startups
Rating: 3.7 out of 53.7 (64 ratings)
728 students
Created by Huw Collingbourne
Last updated 4/2013
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Discover the world of modern programming, quickly and simply
  • Learn about the technologies, master the jargon
  • Understand object orientation – and why it’s important
  • Learn about interactive web development
  • Find out about the huge range of programming languages – from C# to Java, Objective-C to Ruby
  • Just sit back and watch the videos. No coding required!

Course content

6 sections • 19 lectures • 2h 44m total length

  • Preview01:09
  • Preview06:51

  • Preview09:37
  • Elements Of A Computer Program
    21:05
  • Procedural And Object Oriented Languages
    10:28

  • Programming Platforms
    08:13
  • Web Programming
    11:29
  • Dynamic Web Sites
    11:26
  • Editors and IDEs
    12:42

  • Programming Languages Overview
    18:41
  • Choose a language (to learn)
    09:29
  • Choose a language (for your project) and hire programmers
    09:57

  • What’s in the Bonus Section?
    01:24
  • Ruby - the basics of object orientation
    06:44
  • C# - visual development on Windows
    09:36
  • Lazarus and Free Pascal - cross-platform compilation
    05:46

  • Resources
    04:22
  • Glossary
    4 pages
  • And finally...
    01:48

Description

Make programming your business. Even if you’ve never programmed before, this course will explain to you the Business of Software, how computer programs work, how computer programmers think, how to start a computer programming business. You won’t have to do any hands-on coding, but all the essential features of the modern programming world will be explained simply and clearly.

Need to manage a tech project or recruit a programming team but you are baffled by the terminology? This course explains everything you need to know to talk to programmers on their own terms.

It will explain the differences between compilers and interpreters, procedural languages and object orientation, machine code and bytecode. If you are an entrepreneur, it will help you focus on the technologies you need; if you are recruiting a team, it will give you advice on finding the right people; if you already have some programming experience, it will help you to discover new languages and new programming platforms.

The course is taught byHuw Collingbourne, Director of Technology with SapphireSteel Software (makers ofAmethystandSapphireprogramming environments for the Ruby and ActionScript languages). Huw has been a programmer for over 30 years, he has written programming columns for numerous computer magazines such asPC Plus, PC ProandComputer Shopper. He is author of ‘The Book Of Ruby’ from NoStarch Press and ‘The ActionScript Programming Bible’ from Software Press.

This course will help you to break into business of software: on the Web, on mobile devices. On desktop computers; on PCs, Macs and ‘cross-platform’. So join up and get to know how to start a computer programming business….

Instructor

Huw Collingbourne
Director of Technology, SapphireSteel Software
Huw Collingbourne
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 9,212 Reviews
  • 78,831 Students
  • 16 Courses

  Huw Collingbourne is the technology director at SapphireSteel Software, developers of programming tools for Microsoft Visual Studio. He is author of The Little Book Of C, The Little Book Of Pointers and The Little Book Of Recursion from Bitwise Books and of The Book Of Ruby from No Starch Press. He runs Bitwise Courses and teaches courses on a range of programming topics. 

     Huw has been a programmer for more than 30 years. He is a well-known technology writer in the UK. For over ten years he wrote the Delphi and Java programming column for PC Plus Magazine.  He has also written numerous opinion and programming columns (including tutorials on C#, C++, Smalltalk and Ruby) for a number of computer magazines, such as Computer Shopper, PC Pro, and PC Plus. 

     In the 1980s he was a pop music journalist and interviewed most of the New Romantic stars, such as Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Adam Ant, Boy George, and Depeche Mode. He is now writing a series of 1980s murder mysteries. 

     At various times Huw has been a magazine publisher, editor, and TV broadcaster. He has an MA in English from the University of Cambridge and holds a 2nd dan black belt in aikido, a martial art which he teaches in North Devon, UK. The aikido comes in useful when trying (usually unsuccessfully) to keep his Pyrenean Mountain Dogs under some semblance of control. 

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