Introduction to Programming
What does 'programming' in computers mean?
A program is a set of instructions and commands that helps the computer perform in a certain way and give or provide output. The programs and the display that we interact with is all programmed by people, even the operators that we use are all codes and commands compiled together. It is done using certain languages that help us program our computer in certain way. The computer only understands low level languages which consists of 0's and 1's. We can't understand it so we use higher level languages such as C, C+ , Java, Ruby etc. The compiler converts high level language into low level language.
How has it evolved?
- Fortran (1957)
- Cobol (1959)
- C (1969)
- Pascal (1970)
- C++ (1983)
- Perl (1987)
- Ruby (1993)
- Javascript (1995)
