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[[File:JavaScript_code.png|thumb|[[Source code]] for a computer program written in the [[JavaScript]] language. It demonstrates the ''appendChild'' method. The method adds a new child node to an existing parent node. It is commonly used to dynamically modify the structure of an HTML document.]]
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A '''computer program''' is a [[sequence]] or set{{efn|The [[Prolog]] language allows for a database of facts and rules to be entered in any order. However, a question about a database must be at the very end.}} of instructions in a [[programming language]] for a [[computer]] to [[Execution (computing)|execute]]. It is one component of [[software]], which also includes [[software documentation|documentation]] and other intangible components.<ref name="ISO 2020">{{cite web
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A ''computer program'' in its [[human-readable]] form is called [[source code]]. Source code needs another computer program to
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If the source code is requested for execution, then the operating system loads the corresponding interpreter into memory and starts a process. The interpreter then loads the source code into memory to translate and execute each [[Statement (computer science)|statement]]. Running the source code is slower than running an
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==Example computer program==
The [["Hello, World!" program]] is used to illustrate a language's basic
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===ENIAC===
[[File:ENIAC-changing_a_tube.jpg|thumb|right|Glenn A. Beck changing a tube in ENIAC]]
The [[Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer]] (ENIAC) was built between July 1943 and Fall 1945. It was a
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}}</ref> The MOS transistor is the primary component in ''integrated circuit chips''.<ref name="digital_age"/>
Originally, [[integrated circuit]] chips had their function set during manufacturing. During the 1960s, controlling the electrical flow migrated to programming a [[Diode matrix|matrix]] of [[read-only memory]] (ROM). The matrix resembled a two-dimensional array of fuses. The process to embed instructions onto the matrix was to burn out the unneeded connections. There were so many connections, [[firmware]] programmers wrote a ''computer program'' on another chip to oversee the burning. The technology became known as [[Programmable ROM]]. In 1971, Intel
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===x86 series===
[[File:IBM_PC-IMG_7271_(transparent).png|thumb|right|The original [[IBM Personal Computer]] (1981) used an Intel 8088 microprocessor.]]
In 1978, the modern
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==Programming paradigms and languages==
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}}</ref> ''Machine language'' requires the programmer to enter instructions using ''instruction numbers'' called [[machine code]]. For example, the ADD operation on the [[PDP-11 architecture|PDP-11]] has instruction number 24576.{{efn|Whereas this is a decimal number, PDP-11 code is always expressed as [[octal]].}}<ref name="sco-ch7-p399">{{cite book
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* The [[Second-generation programming language|second generation of programming language]] is [[assembly language]].<ref name="pis-ch4-p160"/> ''Assembly language'' allows the programmer to use [[Assembly language#Mnemonics|mnemonic]] [[Instruction_set_architecture#Instructions|instructions]] instead of remembering instruction numbers. An [[Assembler (computing)|assembler]] translates each assembly language mnemonic into its machine language number. For example, on the PDP-11, the operation 24576 can be referenced as ADD R0,R0 in the source code.<ref name="sco-ch7-p399"/> The four basic arithmetic operations have assembly instructions like ADD, SUB, MUL, and DIV.<ref name="sco-ch7-p399"/> Computers also have instructions like DW (Define [[Word (computer architecture)|Word]]) to reserve [[Random-access memory|memory]] cells. Then the MOV instruction can copy [[integer]]s between [[Processor register|registers]] and memory.
:* The basic structure of an assembly language statement is a label, [[Operation (mathematics)|operation]], [[operand]], and comment.<ref name="sco-ch7-p400">{{cite book
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}}</ref> Emerging from a committee of European and American programming language experts, it used standard [[mathematical notation]] and had a readable, structured design. Algol was first to define its
* [[Block (programming)|block structure]], where variables were local to their block.
* arrays with variable bounds.
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====C====
[[C programming language]] (1973) got its name because the language [[BCPL]] was replaced with [[B (programming language)|B]], and [[AT&T Bell Labs]] called the next version "C". Its purpose was to write the [[UNIX]] [[operating system]].<ref name="cpl_3rd-ch2-37"/> C is a relatively small language, making it easy to write compilers. Its growth mirrored the hardware growth in the 1980s.<ref name="cpl_3rd-ch2-37"/> Its growth also was because it has the facilities of [[assembly language]], but it uses a [[High-level programming language|high-level syntax]]. It added advanced features like:
* [[inline assembler]].
* arithmetic on pointers.
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The levels of coupling from worst to best are:<ref name="se-ch8-226"/>
* ''Content Coupling'': A module has content coupling if it modifies a [[local variable]] of another function. COBOL used to do this with the ''alter'' verb.
* ''Common Coupling'': A module has common coupling if it modifies a global variable.
* ''Control Coupling'': A module has control coupling if another module can modify its [[control flow]]. For example, <code>perform_arithmetic( perform_addition, a, b )</code>. Instead, control should be on the makeup of the returned object.
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