Programming

Programming is telling a computer how to do certain things by giving it instructions. These instructions are called programs. A person who writes instructions is a computer programmer. These instructions come in different languages; they are called programming languages. Sometimes programmers use special software which helps them to make programs, and sometimes they use simpler software like Notepad which only gives them a place to type. After they write programs, they use compilers to turn what they've typed, called the source code, into things that they can run, called executables.