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Foil 3 What is programming?

From Computing and Java Language Basics NPAC Java Academy February--April 99 -- Feb 13 1999. by Nancy McCracken
1 A computer follows a set of step-by-step instructions, computing with values that are stored in its memory.
2 These are simple instructions, like "add two numbers".
3 A programming language like Java lets you write more complicated instructions. The compiler translates them into ones the machine can compute.
4 instructions
5 memory
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