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Programming
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ALSO CALLED: Applications Programming, Application Programming, Software Programming, and Computer Programming
DEFINITION: In computing, a program is a specific set of ordered operations for a computer to perform. In the modern computer that John von Neumann outlined in 1945, the program contains a one-at-a-time sequence of instructions that the computer follows. Typically, the program is put into a storage
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PROGRAMMING DEFINITION (continued):
area accessible to the computer. The computer gets one instruction and performs it and then gets the next instruction. The storage area or memory can also contain the data that the instruction operates on. (Note that a program is also a special kind of "data" that tells how to operate on "application or user data.") Programs can be characterized as interactive or batch in terms of what drives them and how continuously they run. An interactive program receives data from an interactive
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