What does program mean?
A sequence of instructions that a computer can execute to carry out a task. The instructions run in the order they are written unless a selection or an iteration changes that order.
In a lesson
This lesson has almost no typing in it. It is about the idea underneath everything else: what a program is, and what happens when you press Run.
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- Taught in F1.1 What a program is Programming basics, GCSE
Used in
- F1.2 Output: print
- F1.3 Calling functions
- F1.4 Errors: syntax, runtime and logic
- F1.5 Comments and readable code
- F1.6 Variables, constants and assignment
- F1.7 Input from the user
- F1.8 Data types and casting
- F1.9 Arithmetic operators
- F1.10 Project: ask and drive
- F2.1 Blocks and indentation
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