What is coding?

welcome to our of code an introduction

to the basics of computer programming or

as it's commonly called coding code is

all around you and the results of coding

are everywhere whether you're posting a

tweet watching a YouTube video or even

swiping a debit card whatever happens

happens because of lines of code in fact

just about anything with a plug or

battery uses code or computer programs

to do things lots of everyday items

phones watches microwaves cars have

computers in them and they all rely on

code to make them work so what is code

exactly code is a precise set of

instructions a computer can understand

think of it as a recipe the instructions

need to be precise so whatever you're

making turns out the way it should and

just like people in different parts of

the world speak different languages

computers understand many different

languages - with names like Python C++

Perl and Visual Basic they're all

different in their own way and similar

to spoken languages they share many of

the same basic features today we're

going to write some code using a

language called touchdevelop

but the ideas behind the code applied to

any programming language select let's

get started to begin