First of all we need to know what programming is and what is a language?
Programming is like telling the computer what to do with a set of data provided by the user or by itself.
How do you do that? We'll come to it later.
First let me tell you something about my younger brother. Whenever I ask him to do something he simply won't understand anything unless I tell him how to do every bit of it.
The computer is exactly like him. You need to tell it everything step by step; very clearly what you want it to do. Only then you will get required results.
What makes the process more difficult is the fact that computers don't understand English (or any other language for that matter) like my brother does. So in that way the computer is tougher to handle than my brother. But really it is not that hard once you get the hang of it.
Now since the computer doesn't understand our language how do you tell it what to do? Here steps in the programming language to solve our problems. We can write bits and pieces of instructions according to the rules of the programming language, known as syntax, which then a piece of software called the compiler converts to a series of machine instructions which the computer understands.
Remember how you were taught additions, subtractions in your early nursery classes. We will have to use the same methods to write programs. So go and brush up your memory and revise your junior classes’ books. We will know more on how to start programming later.
Tomorrow or the next day I get time we will learn about something called Logic...
Programming is like telling the computer what to do with a set of data provided by the user or by itself.
How do you do that? We'll come to it later.
First let me tell you something about my younger brother. Whenever I ask him to do something he simply won't understand anything unless I tell him how to do every bit of it.
The computer is exactly like him. You need to tell it everything step by step; very clearly what you want it to do. Only then you will get required results.
What makes the process more difficult is the fact that computers don't understand English (or any other language for that matter) like my brother does. So in that way the computer is tougher to handle than my brother. But really it is not that hard once you get the hang of it.
Now since the computer doesn't understand our language how do you tell it what to do? Here steps in the programming language to solve our problems. We can write bits and pieces of instructions according to the rules of the programming language, known as syntax, which then a piece of software called the compiler converts to a series of machine instructions which the computer understands.
Remember how you were taught additions, subtractions in your early nursery classes. We will have to use the same methods to write programs. So go and brush up your memory and revise your junior classes’ books. We will know more on how to start programming later.
Tomorrow or the next day I get time we will learn about something called Logic...
