Python Programming

Summary:

• Programming $\ne$ coding
• Programming $\supset$ coding
• Programming involves:
  1. Understanding and formulating the problem
  2. Designing an algorithm to solve the problem
  3. Implementing the algorithm
• Machine code is what the computer understands, but us writing machine code will be tedious.
• High-level languages have been developed to help make programming easier.
• Translators convert high-level languages to low-level code:
  1. Compilers pre-translate codes into a set of low-level instructions, which is then executed.
  2. Interpreters translate and execute code line by line, on the fly.
• Programming languages need to be unambiguous.
• Spend more time thinking about the problem and developing a clear algorithm before coding.