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- Code is a set of instructions (or rules) that computers can understand; it might be helpful to think of code as a recipe.
- People write code, code powers computers and computers power many everyday objects like phones, watches, microwaves and cars.
- In fact, almost anything powered by electricity uses code.
- There are many names for people who code: coders, programmers, developers, computer scientists, software engineers, etc.
- Computers run on binary code—written in 1s and 0s—which is very dicult for humans to work with.
- But just as people can understand different languages computers can understand different languages (like Python, C, C++, Perl, Visual
- Basic, Java, Javascript, Ruby and PHP, among others) which translate our instructions into binary.
- There are "low-level" and "high-level" coding languages. Lower-level languages more closely resemble binary code while higher-level languages are easier to code in.
- So learning to code is literally like learning a new language (learning to construct sentences, etc.).
- Most popular programming languages in use today are high-level languages.
- C is a low-level programming language that is good for graphics-heavy applications, like games.
- Javascript is for for the web.
- Perl is sometimes known as the "Swiss-Army knife" of programming languages because of it's multi-functionality.
- Many coding languages share similar basic features.
- A text file written in a particular programming language is called a program (think a set of instructions).
- There are many ways to learn how to code for free or very cheap.
- Programming and coding are not the same.
- PHP wasn't meant to be a programming language.
- The first programmer was a lady.
- The first game was created in 1961. It didn't earn any money
- The first computer bug was identified in 1947 as a dead moth.
- The first computer was actually a loom called the Jacqard loom, an automated, mechanical loom, which didn't use any electricity.
- The first high-level (very close to English) programming language was FORTRAN. It was invented in 1954 by John Backus.
- The original name for JAVA was OAK.
- There are at least 698 programming languages (but some of them are obselete).
- Perl is sometimes known as the "Swiss-Army knife" of programming languages.
- Programmers will start the count from zero, not one.
- Many coders who changed the world started coding for fun, just like you and me!
- Computer games are so popular that the games industry is now worth more than the movie industry.
- Every programming language internally converts into the C language and then to a machine level language that is 0 and 1.
- Almost anything that is powered by electricity uses code.
- The computer virus wasn't designed to be harmful.
- Spacecraft runs on 1970s computer coding.
- Many coding languages share similiar features.
- The first "pre-computers" were powered by steam.
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