P of Program
Before you read: If you are a learner looking to just skip to the main part of writing a program, then maybe you should try elsewhere. This will teach you the intricacies behind programming before you write it.
Definition: You probably already know what the education departments and their freakish vocabulary publish in the “Books” supposed to be teaching us knowledge, But most of them are encrypted pieces of scrap paper for beginners, while teachers who should be decrypting them for students only making it more incomprehensible, no offense.
Now think of a child whom you want to teach to solve math problems. How will you teach? You will not start by explaining definition, right? The child does not know what is addition and will not understand the definition, making him think of it as some veryy~ difficult thing to perform. You will start by explaining its use first, then you will teach him steps to perform addition and viola! Child understands and learns to do addition.
Well now relate a child with a computer with clean memory having zero knowledge of what is addition. Explaining the steps to perform addition is just the same as writing a program, and now the computer executes those steps same as child and gives you the result.
Conclusion: Program is just the steps you want the computer to follow so that it can carry out the task you want it to perform.
PS: If you teach child wrong steps, or miss some steps, then child will always get wrong answers as child will always follow yours (parent’s) instructions blindly.
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