Computer programming (often shortened to programming or coding) is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in one or more programming languages. The purpose of programming is to create a set of instructions that computers use to perform specific operations or to exhibit desired behaviors. The process of writing source code often requires expertise in many different subjects, including knowledge of the application domain, specialized algorithms and formal logic.

Verb

programming

1. Present participle of program.

   I was programming a new module for the software package.

   He was programming the VCR.

Noun

programming (plural programmings)

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.

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".

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