Programming
Programming is the process of designing, writing, testing, and maintaining instructions that a computer can execute. These instructions are written in programming languages that provide syntax, semantics, and abstractions for expressing algorithms and data manipulation. A program may run on a single device or across many environments.
Historically, computers first executed binary machine code. Higher-level languages emerged in the 1950s and 1960s to
Programming paradigms include imperative, functional, object-oriented, and declarative styles. Languages embody these approaches to varying degrees;
Software is created with text editors or integrated development environments, and built using compilers or interpreters.
Applications span operating systems, web services, data analysis, scientific computing, simulations, and embedded systems. The field