Outline of computer programming

Programming involves activities such as analysis, developing understanding, generating algorithms, verification of requirements of algorithms including their correctness and resources consumption, and implementation (commonly referred to as coding[1][2]) of algorithms in a target programming language.

Source code is written in one or more programming languages.

The purpose of programming is to find a sequence of instructions that will automate performing a specific task or solving a given problem.

Programming language – formal constructed language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer.

The top 20 most popular programming languages as of December 2022[update]:[3] Programming language comparisons Software engineering –