What is the definition of computer programming?

somebody can define the phrase"computer programming" and gimme the meaning of it..n also advantage of computer programming..towards society,country or whatever..juz the advantage of it...

What is the definition of computer programming?
Computer programming is making the computer do what you want.
Reply:Computer programming (often shortened to programming or coding) is the process of writing, testing, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. The source code is written in a programming language. This code may be a modification of existing source or something completely new. The process of writing source code requires expertise in many different subjects, including knowledge of the application domain and algorithms to implement the desired behavior. Within software engineering, programming (the implementation) is regarded as one phase in a software development process.





In some specialist applications or extreme situations a program may be written or modified (known as patching) by directly storing the numeric values of the machine code instructions to be executed into memory.





There is an ongoing debate on the extent to which the writing of programs is an art, a craft or an engineering discipline.[1]





Another ongoing debate is the extent to which the programming language used in writing programs affects the form that the final program takes. This debate is analogous to that surrounding the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in linguistics.[citation needed]
Reply:I think of it as developing a "recipe" for the steps involved in getting the computer to do something.





I sometimes use the job title of "software composer".