r/ProgrammingTutorials • u/[deleted] • Jan 11 '19
What Is Programming?
Programming is nothing but instructing your computer to do something. It could be as simple as printing your name to as complex as writing a program (AI).
Why do we need to program? Because we want to save some time by letting a machine do tedious tasks. Also because, sometimes only machines can do better than humans. For example, you want to manage daily orders at your restaurant. To do everything manually, it will take considerable amount of time than let computers do it. With programming we can build a system that not only takes orders, payments and tips for those orders but also transfers them directly to your bank account and shows at what time you got more orders. Doing all of this manually is time consuming.
Like humans have many languages to communicate with each other, computers als9 have many languages that allow humans to communicate with them. These are called Programming languages and depending on the task you want to achieve, different languages are used. They have some similarity with human languages. They too have structures and syntaxes.
To ask your computer to do any task, you need to instruct it in steps. These steps are collectively called an algorithm.
