Deep fry wings and put in sauce. Shake until wings covered with sauce. Put wings with sauce in a glass baking dish into oven at 250 degrees F to keep warm until rest are ready. As well, we have a list of resources or ingredients which we will use in producing the results. Of course, computers need more explicit instructions than humans.
Programming languages are the programmer's tools.
They allow a programmer to describe the solution to a problem in terms the computer can interpret. Each computer programming language has a set of rules which must be followed and syntax which must be used. The ultimate high-level language would be language such as how our recipe is written however computers have yet to achieve this level of sophistication. An example is machine code or assembly code where the programmer has direct control over hardware in the CPU such as registers and memory. In this case 'print' instructs the machine to write a line of text to the screen while 'input' instructs the machine to get something from the keyboard.