Verb

programming or programing

1. Present participle of program.

   I was programming a new module for the software package.

   He was programming the VCR.

Noun

programming

1. (broadcasting) The designing, scheduling or planning of a radio or television program / programme

   "The network changed its programming to mess with DVRs again."

2. brain-washing
3. (computing): The act of writing a computer program.

   "Management wanted to know how much programming the project would need."

4. The software that controls a machine, or the logic or expressed in such software; operating instructions

   A robot's programming doesn't allow for love.

Derived terms

• linear programming
• mathematical programming
• dynamic programming
• television programming
• radio programming
• broadcast programming
• computer programming
• functional programming
• logic programming
• genetic programming
• evolutionary programming

Computer programming (often shortened to programming or coding) is the process of writing, testing, debugging/troubleshooting, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in a programming language. The code may be a modification of an existing source or something completely new. The purpose of programming is to create a program that exhibits a certain desired behaviour (customization). The process of writing source code often requires expertise in many different subjects, including knowledge of the application domain, specialized algorithms and formal logic.

Computer programming (often simply programming or coding) is the craft of writing a set of commands or instructions that can later be compiled and/or interpreted and then inherently transformed to an executable that an electronic machine can execute or "run".

Contents

• 1 Computer Programming
  • 1.1 Anonymous/Unattributed
• 2 Debugging
  • 2.1 Anonymous/Unattributed
• 3 Unrelated/off-topic
• 4 See also
• 5 External links

Computer Programming

• On two occasions I have been asked,—"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
  • Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), ch. 5: "Difference Engine No. 1"

• Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
  • Rick Cook (or Rich Cook?) ^{[citation needed]}

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