StellarWhy Programming? Why Java?
Programming is just telling a computer what to do in code. Let’s say you program a robot, for example, to bake a cake.
We can’t just tell the computer to "bake a cake" in the code. Computers need to follow very low-level, specific instructions. To bake a cake, we need to explicitly tell the computer to:
- preheat the oven
- grease the pan
- add cream, sugar, and butter
- mix in eggs, vanilla, flour, and baking powder
- cook the batter in the oven.
A series of steps to solve a problem is called an algorithm. Think of an algorithm as a procedure or a recipe to get the output that we want.
Well, how do we tell a computer what to do? There are several programming languages we can use to communicate with our computer. The programming language we will be learning in this course is called Java.