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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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