What does instruction mean?
A single command in a program that tells the computer to do one thing, such as move, print or compare.
In a lesson
A recipe is a list of instructions for a cook. A program is a list of instructions for a computer. The robot in front of you has a small computer inside, and it will do exactly what your instructions say, in the order you wrote them, and nothing else.
Learn it
- Taught in F1.1 What a program is Programming basics, GCSE
Used in
- F1.3 Calling functions
- F5.1 What an algorithm is
- F6.5 Languages and translators
- F9.3 Hardware, software and von Neumann
- F9.4 The CPU and fetch-execute
- F9.5 CPU performance
- F9.6 Memory
- F9.9 Operating systems and utilities
- 9.3 Protocols
- 9.4 Asking
and 21 more lessons.
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