Chapter 1. Introduction and First Steps – Take a Deep Breath
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." | ||
--Chinese proverb |
According to Wikipedia, computer programming is:
"...a process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable computer programs. 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) of algorithms in a target programming language".
In a nutshell, coding is telling a computer to do something using a language it understands.
Computers are very powerful tools, but unfortunately, they can't think for themselves. So they need to be told everything. They need to be told how to perform a task, how to evaluate a condition to decide which path...