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What is Coding?
Coding or programming is the 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.
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.
Programming languages have syntax. Syntax is the same as grammar in any language.
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