Computer Programming
Programming is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging and maintaining the source code (a program written in high level language is called source code) of computer program. Programming a computer means that you tell the computer what you want it to do. To tell the computer what to do, you need special words called keywords or commands. When you put all these keywords together to do something, they are called code or program. Writing a program or code is called coding or programming.
A program written in high level language needs to be translated with the compiler and interpreter for the computer to understand.
A compiler is a language translator that …
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