Fundamentals of Programming

Institution MASINDE MULIRO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Course BACHELOR OF SCIENCE...
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Programming is the art of writing computer instructions in a language that the computer can interpret and/or understand. In this topic, we shall look at some basic definitions and introduce some basic concepts in programming. Definition 1. A computer is an electronic machine that accepts data as its input, process these data based on some instructions to produce information as it output. These instructions that guide a computer on how to process the data is what we refer to as a program.
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