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3. Introduction

Gerard Byrne1  
(1)
Belfast, Ireland
 

Computer Program

We will be using C# to write computer programs, just like many programmers in companies around the world use C# to write programs in the commercial environment. So a very good starting point before writing code is to fully understand what a computer program is. We can think of a computer program as
  • A sequence of data instructions created by a programmer

  • Instructions that tell the computer what operations it should execute

  • Instructions that tell the computer how it should execute an operation

  • Instructions written in a special programming ...

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