While example programs are in Pascal programming language (that the author created), it is still a very well written book that teaches how to connect real world problems to programming from a beginner's standpoint. It assumes the least out of the reader of nearly all programming books I know of. Check out the reviews at Amazon.
[1] My story: I started programming at the age of 11 when my father gifted me a computer, and its manual. That manual was so concise and precise that I learned something new from it each time I read it. It ended with a chapter on writing machine code, which led me to write short programs in machine code straight by age 15!
"Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs" by Niklaus Wirth: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Structures-Prentice-Hall-Au...
While example programs are in Pascal programming language (that the author created), it is still a very well written book that teaches how to connect real world problems to programming from a beginner's standpoint. It assumes the least out of the reader of nearly all programming books I know of. Check out the reviews at Amazon.
[1] My story: I started programming at the age of 11 when my father gifted me a computer, and its manual. That manual was so concise and precise that I learned something new from it each time I read it. It ended with a chapter on writing machine code, which led me to write short programs in machine code straight by age 15!