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Foil 2 What is programming?

From Short Introduction to Kids on Basic Programming Concepts in Java Sonia Kovalesky festival workshop (High School Girls) -- October 23 1999. by Nancy McCracken
A computer follows a set of step-by-step instructions, computing with values that are stored in its memory.
These are simple instructions, like "add two numbers".
A programming language like Java lets you write more complicated instructions. The compiler translates them into ones the machine can compute.
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