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Introduction to programming
1. A B R I E F I N T R O D U C T I O N
Introduction to Programming
2. What is programming?
Programming is a way through which you can tell
your computer to do something.
It is a set of instruction which performs a specific
task.
In human body brain is the part which absorb the
information, process it and generate an accurate
response.
Likewise, if your boss has asked you to do something
your brain takes the input and tell your body to move
and perform the task.
3. Programming
Similarly, in computers brain is processor.
When ever we want our computer to do something,
we have to talk to it in a way which would be easily
understandable to computer.
So, we can say that talking to computer, making it
understand what you are saying and asking it to do
something for you is Programming
4. Language.
To talk to people, we use specific language.
A French wont be able to understand urdu/Hindi.
To ask a French to do something, we would have to
talk to him in French.
Likewise, in computer we have to program our task
in a way which would be understandable to
computer.
5. Language
They are two types of languages.
High Level languages -> easy way to program
Low level languages-> 0s and 1s
Example of low level language is Assembly languages
6. High Level Languages
As computer understands 0s and 1s only,
To make it easier for human to program, people have
created High level languages.
Easy to work with. Computer converts the text and
program in 0s and 1s through interpreters and
compiles.
Example-> Java, C, C++,C# etc