What's your understanding of Software
What is Software?
Software is a set of instructions, data or programs used to operate computers and execute specific tasks. It is the opposite of hardware, which describes the physical aspects of a computer. Software is a generic term used to refer to applications, scripts and programs that run on a device.
What is an application/ App?
Simply put, an app is a type of software that allows you to perform specific tasks. Apps are typically written in different programming languages.
What is "programming"?
Programming refers to a technological process for telling a computer which tasks to perform in order to solve problems. You can think of programming as a collaboration between humans and computers, in which humans create instructions for a computer to follow (code) in a language computers can understand.
What is coding?
Computer programming or coding is the composition of sequences of instructions, called programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks. It involves designing and implementing algorithms, step-by-step specifications of procedures, by writing code in one or more programming languages.
How do you explain programming to beginners?
A computer is a machine that processes and stores information. Programming is telling the computer how to ingest, process, and then store that data. When someone writes a program, that person is giving the computer a set of commands that it must follow.
What is the difference between programming and coding?
Coding is a part of programming that deals with writing codes that a machine can understand. Programming is a process that creates programs that involve the ratification of codes. Coding requires basic knowledge of programming skills without any software tools.
What are the 5 most used programming langauges?
1. JavaScript
2. HTML/ CSS
3. Phyton
4. SQL
5. SQL
What are the 4 types of codes?
imperative, functional, logical, and object-oriented.
What is an API?
API is the acronym for application programming interface — a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other.
APIs are mechanisms that enable two software components to communicate with each other using a set of definitions and protocols. For example, the weather bureau's software system contains daily weather data. The weather app on your phone “talks” to this system via APIs and shows you daily weather updates on your phone.