Introduction
Today's World is By the Computers, With the Computers and For the Computers.
So before moving into the technical stuff, let me tell you a small story.
For the last many years, I've been using computers for various purposes like watching movies, listening to music and playing games, and many more. But I never noticed how am I able to do all this stuff and how this computer is able to do all this stuff. But now I'm wondering who the hell builds all these computer applications and games and how exactly they build them. So I did some research on it. I hope you'll like it.
So if you are reading this article, that means you already have worked on computers before, and let me guess, now you're wondering about how exactly a computer works. So don't worry guys you are at the right place. In this article, I'll make you travel the world of Computer Programming.
So let's start with a simple definition of Computer Programming.
Computer Programming is not only about writing codes, but it is about communicating and interacting with the computer or the machine. In fact, Computer Programming is 20% about writing programs/codes and 80% about thinking about the solution to the problem.
Computer Programming is just a way or a method to perform a particular task or an operation through computers using various programming languages.
The World is unimaginable without computers. Computers are the key to the future. But we should not forget the hands behind one of the greatest inventions of the century and which is of course the Computer.
Now let's dig out some history of computers.
History
The first-ever computer was invented by Charles Babbage in 1822.
This computer was named Analytical Engine.
And that's why he is known as the Father of the Computer. But unlike today's digitally advanced computers the analytical engine was not that capable. It was mainly used to calculate complex mathematical and some scientific calculations.
Then in the 20th century, the needs and requirements began to grow. More scientific computing was needed and the analytical engine was not that capable.
Now here comes the second generation computer and these computers were called Analog Computers.
Then after a lot of innovations, today's modern computers were invented.
What is Computer Programming?
Computer Programming is a process that professionals use to write code/program so that they can tell a computer what, when, and how it should perform a particular task. Computer Programming is basically used to instruct a computer, to build applications/software, games, etc.
Now you might be wondering who writes all these complex programs?
So here is the answer. That is the Computer Programmer who writes all the complex computer programs.
So as we humans can talk and communicate in various languages like English, Hindi, Japanese, German, etc. Similarly, we can also communicate through computers with the help of various programming languages like Python, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, etc.
You may know that we are gradually moving towards the world of artificial intelligence and machine learning and even these 2 subjects cannot exist without computer programming.
You all might not know, but we all are interacting with these computer programs in our daily life. All the applications and computer software are made with the help of computer programming using various programming languages.
In fact, according to research, we spend 80% of our time interacting with these computer programs.
Software like MS Office, VLC Media Player, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Photoshop, and even the internet, are examples of computer programs.
English is made of nouns, pronouns, prepositions, conjunction, adjectives, adverbs, etc. Similarly, programming languages are also made of these English elements only. Just like human languages, programming languages also follow grammar known as syntax.
Programming Languages
Programming Languages are just languages used to communicate with a machine or a computer. Like in the English language there are words, sentences, paragraphs, and groups of paragraphs (a whole text), in programming languages, there are keywords, statements, expressions, and programs.
All the software as well as games are built using programming languages only.
Top 10 Programming Languages
Though there are lots of programming languages available in the current market but don't worry guys you don't have to learn all those programming languages. You just have to learn those which are relevant to your work. Here are the top 10 programming languages.
- JavaScript
- Python
- Java
- R
- Swift
- C++
- Golang
- PHP
- Kotlin
- TypeScript
Why Programming is Important?
Today is the era of technology, AI, ML, etc., and all these modern technologies cannot be possible without programming.
We need computer programming to boost the speed and performance of a machine by adding more features and functions to it. With the help of computer programming, the input and output processes on a machine can also be increased.
Computer Programming is also important to collect, manage, calculate, automate and analyze the processing of data and information efficiently and accurately.
In fact, computer science/programming is the most demanded field in the current era.
Is Computer Programming Hard?
Well, there is nothing like hard and easy. It totally depends on us whether we want to make something harder or easier.
So this is crystal clear that if you have a fascination with coding or programming or even with anything, then it'll be too easier for you because you're interested in that particular subject. And you might do miracles in that field.
Conclusion
So in the above article, we've studied the basics of computer science/programming like its meaning and definition, a little bit of history of the computer and after then we learned about the basics of computer programming languages.
And I've also told you about the top 10 programming languages ruling in the market. In this article, you'll also get to know the importance of computer science/programming in the current as well as the future era and at the end, I've told you that is it hard or easy to learn to program?