What is programming?

What is programming?

1. How you get computers to solve problems.

   • YOU
     • Without the programmer (you), the computer is useless. It does what you tell it to do.
   • SOLVE PROBLEMS
     • Computers are complex tools that exist to make tasks easier.

2. COMPUTER PROGRAMS

   • software
     • make computers work and runs the operating system
   • Create
     • give a computer a set of instructions to be run

3. Creative task

4. BASIC LOGICAL STRUCTURES

   • Sequence
     • running instructions in order
   • Selection
     • making choices
   • Repetition
     • doing the same thing more than once

5. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

   • used as a language computers understand to give them instructions
     • PYTHON
       • general-purpose programming language
         • it can be used to solve a wide variety of problems
     • C, JAVA, RUBY, BASIC

6. Coding