front matter

 

preface

This book is based on a real story. My son, Erik, liked to go to Starbucks and try drinks with different flavors and toppings. One day, he decided to prepare drinks himself and treat his friends. He took his tablet to collect orders from them, but I suggested he create a simple program for that. He had tried to learn programming before, but most of the exercises were boring for him. This time, he saw a real problem he could solve with programming, and he got interested.

That’s how this book was started. I hope you’ll find your own interesting problem that can be solved with programming—and I hope this book will help you.

Here are a few pieces of advice:

acknowledgments

about this book

Who should read this book?

How this book is organized: A roadmap

About the code

liveBook discussion forum

Other online resources

Going further

about the author