Computer program (nonfiction)

C-language "Hello, World" source code. This first known "Hello, world" snippet from the seminal book The C Programming Language originates from Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie in 1974.

A computer program, or just a program, is a sequence of instructions, written to perform a specified task, or automate the solution to a problem, on a computer.

See Computer algorithm (nonfiction).

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Mathematics

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Computation (nonfiction)
• Computer (nonfiction)
• Computer algorithm (nonfiction)
• Computer science (nonfiction)
• "Hello World!" program (nonfiction)
• Program optimization (nonfiction)

External links:

• Computer program @ Wikipedia