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.
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