The first lesson in BFOIT’s Introduction to Computer Programming, “What Is Computer Programming,” describes the gulf between how we (humans) would like to describe what we want done and the native language of a computer – ones and zeroes. It sets the stage for what’s behind the scenes as we learn to program in the high-level programming language: Logo.
see: http://www.bfoit.org/itp/Programming.html
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