This book’s pedagogy, organization, and clear writing style remain the same as in the previous edition. Many improvements have been made, which are summarized here: Detailed guidance for students designing their first program A new section titled Designing Your First Program has been added to Chapter 2. This section takes the student through the process of analyzing a problem and determining its requirements. The student sees an example of how a program's input, processing, and output can be determined, as a prelude to writing pseudocode and drawing flowcharts. Also, a new In The Spotlight section has been added to Chapter 2 to show the student how to examine the steps that are taken to manually perform a calculation (determining cell phone overage fees), and then convert those steps to a computer algorithm. New Debugging Exercises A new set of Debugging Exercises have been added to most of the chapters. The student examines a set of pseudocode algorithms and identifies logical errors. Greater consistency between flowcharts and pseudocode Throughout the book, many of the flowcharts have been revised so they appear more consistent with the pseudocode Expanded coverage of nested repetition structures In Chapter 5 the section on nested loops has been expanded with an additional example Additional VideoNotes for repetition structures New VideoNotes have been added for the Do-While and For loops in Chapter 5. File specification documentation and print spacing charts File specification documentation and print spacing charts are now discussed in Chapter 10 New pseudocode quick reference guide A quick reference guide to the pseudocode used in the book has been added as Appendix C New Programming Language Companions New language companions have been added for Python 3 and C++. All of the book's language companions are available on the book's resource site at www.pearsonhighered.com/gaddis.