Lesson: What is Programming?
Overview:
Explore what it means to program and why we do it.
Objectives:
Understand at a high level what programming is and what it means to "program".
Content:
When used in the context of computers, programming generally means the process of creating the instructions that a computer will follow in solving a particular problem or completing some task. The product of programming is a "program", which is a package of instructions that can be executed by a computer. A program typically directs the computer to accept input of some type and produce output of some type. Programs are at the heart of all computing and are what you are using when you play games, edit documents, make calls on your phone, interact with web sites or make robots move.
Here is the Wikipedia description of programming.
A video describing programming.
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