Welcome to Programming

Get a brief introduction of basic terminologies in this lesson.

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What’s a program?

  • A computer is a machine whose role is to execute quickly and flawlessly a series of actions given to it.

  • A program is a list of actions given to a computer. These actions take the form of textual commands. All these commands form the program’s source code.

  • The programmer’s task is to create programs. To accomplish this goal, he can use different programming languages.

  • Before writing code, one must think ahead and decompose the problem in a series of elementary operations, forming an algorithm.

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