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A program is a text. Writing a program is like writing an instruction manual. After we have written a program or a manual, other people can read it. The important difference between a manual and a program is that a computer can rim a program but it cannot run a manual. Consequently, a program must convey information in a form that a human reader can understand and a computer can process. Because programmers spend more time writing and changing existing programs than writing new ones, it is important to write programs that are easily understood by people as well as efficiently processed by computers.
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Grogono, P. (1995). First Concepts. In: Programming with Turing and Object Oriented Turing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4238-3_1
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