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WHAT EXACTLY IS CODING?
Coding or programming is a process of
creating codes to instruct a computer to
perform a specific task. There can be more
than one way to solve the problem; similarly,
there are many ways to write code for the
same task.
Let see an example:
When you play video on your smartphone. Your smartphone will act
as a computer which needs to be instructed (in this instructions will
be given by the application which plays the video) at each and every
step on what to be done. The application playing the video provides
this instruction via programming language.
Coding fact
The first programmer or the first person to write our modern understanding of
a program was Ada Lovelace.
WHAT IS A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE?
Language is the primary means of communication for all human interactions. In the same
way, to interact with computers, you need a language which the computer understands and
is called a programming language.
To communicate with computer, programmers use computer language which is known as
programming language. So, programming language can be defined as a set of instructions
which are written in any specific computer language to perform a set of activities.
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