What is Programming?

Before going to proper understaning of word "Programming" ; we should know some basic terminology that is using in Programming world if you know about these word then you are programming literate....


1) Program.
2) Programming Language.
3) Programmer.
4) Compiler( Translator)




1) Program
When you switch on your computer after the boot and before the shutdown all things in computer are Program........

Operating System itself is also a very big Program and all thing implicitly (Device Driver) and explicitly (Game,Inventory System) have installed in the computer; all of these are Programs.


Most popular program are following
1) Ms Office(Microsoft Product for Office Use)
2) Window Media Player(Entertainment Program)
3) Calculator( Use for Mathematics)


now lets come on defination of Program "Set Of instruction whose tell the computer what to do and how to do is called Program".Program can also be said to "Software ".

Program are two type
1) Application Program.
2) System Program.

2) Programming Language

The establishment of program require one of the most thing that is "Programming language".

This enable us to communicate to computer and order him to do this task through programming langauage; like to communicate with some person we need some languages(English, Spanish,German,Arbic) to express our thought ,feeling ,ideas ,thinking etc etc. without any language we cannot interchange our views to eachother. Same case with computer and we require Programming language.


There are more than thousand programming language are available that can be used.I just mention world top most Programming Language

•  JAVA
•  C# (C Sharp)
•  Visaul Basic
•  PHP
• Python
• Ruby

3) Compiler

No doubt computer only understand binary language( 0s and 1s) like 11110001 ,but these programming language are intermediate language between the computer and human.


Intermedaite worker who done this job like to convert Programming langauge to computer langauge and computer language to programming language is called "COMPLIER". Complier Work as Tranlator or conversion




4) Programmer

Programmer are the person who use above mention tools(Programming Language,Compiler).

It order the computer to perform accordingly own logic.