Welcome to Programming

What’s a program?

• A computer is a machine whose role is to execute quickly and flawlessly a series of actions given to it.

• A program is a list of actions given to a computer. These actions take the form of textual commands. All these commands form the program’s source code.

• The programmer’s task is to create programs. To accomplish this goal, he can use different programming languages.

• Before writing code, one must think ahead and decompose the problem in a series of elementary operations, forming an algorithm.