Computer programming is the process within computer science whereby a graphic representation of the steps we take to solve a problem is turned into a set of instructions a machine can understand. In Python, for example, these instructions, or so-called “programming code,” run in your computer’s memory and carry out the instructions you tell them to. 

Programming is not the same as coding. Coding is the process of turning programming code into a form a machine can understand. For example, in Python, coding is the process of turning the programming code you see here

into a set of instructions the …