Computer Basics 20 What Do Programmers Do

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http://FreeCodeCamp.com is a community of busy people who learn to code, then practice by building projects for nonprofits. Learn Full-stack JavaScript, build a portfolio, and get great references with our open source community. • Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/intent/user?scree... • Follow us on Twitch: twitch.tv/freecodecamp • Like us on Facebook: / freecodecamp • Follow Quincy on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Quincy-Larson • Programmers (a.k.a. coders, developers, or software engineers) solve problems by turning big ideas into tiny steps that a computer can understand. • In this video, we'll discuss what programmers do. • Programmers can also be called coders, developers, or software engineers, and what all of these peple do is take ideas and turn them into functional code. • It's not just creating that code, but also maintaining it. • Let's look at how the computer looks at code, specifically javascript. • The computer looks at code one line at a time, and as you're writing code, you will notice numbers on the left hand side. • The computer literally goes down line by line, making sense of what each line has to say. • Everything is done sequentially, just straight down, so refrencing something that is below and hasn't happened yet will lead to a problem. • Computers just read straight down like you would read a book. • Programmers are the ones responsible for breaking their ideas down into the little tiny steps and writing them in a way that computers can understand them. • ❤️ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba – the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp

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