Programs Programming In Lesson 3, you learned that all of the information that travels through your computer is stored on bits as either an on or off signal. Using bits and bytes in different combinations to represent a code is known as programming . These codes allow the computer to understand instructions. Computer programmers are people who write these codes to create programs. There are even programming languages that make it easier, so that these people don't have to remember all the bit or byte combinations.
Programming allows people and computers to communicate more easily.
Computer Programs A program is a set of instructions that tells the computer how to perform a specific task. For example, your favorite computer game is a program. Installing the program means that you are copying the program or instructions that are stored on the CD on to your computer's hard drive. Programs can also be downloaded from the internet directly to your hard drive. To keep that from happening, these programs are designed to only copy part of the program onto your computer.