Essential Computer Science: A Programmer’s Guide to Foundational Concepts

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P. D. Crutcher et al.Essential Computer Sciencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7107-0_2

2. Programming

Paul D. Crutcher¹  , Neeraj Kumar Singh² and Peter Tiegs³

(1)

Welches, OR, USA

(2)

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

(3)

Hillsboro, OR, USA

 

In Chapter 1, we learned how the CPU fetches, decodes, and executes instructions and that those instructions sit on a persistent storage device until the CPU is turned on and transfers them to main memory. Of course, someone has to write the instructions in the first place, which we call “programming.” So simply put, programming is the act of writing instructions for a computer to do some specific task. In this chapter, we will ...