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'''Computer code''' or '''program code''' is the set of instructions forming a [[computer program]] which is [[Execution (computing)|executed]] by a [[computer]].

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Computers can only directly execute the [[machine code]] instructions which are part of their [[instruction set]]. Because these instructions are difficult for humans to read, and writing good programs in machine code or other [[low-level programming language]]s is a time-consuming task, most [[programmer]]s write in the [[source code]] of a [[high-level programming language]]. This source code is translated into machine code by a [[compiler]] or [[interpreter (computing)|interpreter]] so that the computer can execute it to perform its [[task (computing)|task]]s.

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