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Python for Kids, 2nd Edition
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Python for Kids, 2nd Edition

by Jason R. Briggs
November 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
368 pages
6h 47m
English
No Starch Press
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1Not All Snakes Slither

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A computer program is a set of instructions that causes a computer to perform some kind of action. It isn’t the physical parts of a computer—like the wires, microchips, cards, hard drive, and such—but the hidden stuff running on that hardware. A computer program, which I’ll usually refer to as just a program, is the set of commands that tells that hardware what to do. Software is a collection of computer programs.

Without computer programs, almost every device you use daily would either stop working or be much less useful than it is now. Computer programs, in one form or another, control not only your personal computer ...

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ISBN: 9781098141400