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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.







                     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 same as grammar in our English language.





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