My first computer programming class summed up and simplified programing in one sentence: a computer program is an algorithm, an algorithm is a set of instructions.
So what is Computer Source Code?
A computer program written in human readable form. Its a collection of logical statements that will allow the computer to perform some function once it is compiled to its computer readable form. The source code is a simply a document until it can interpreted into 1’s and 0’s for the computer.
The logical instructions within the source code typically points to other bits of code in a directory or database.
References & more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code
http://www.linfo.org/source_code.html
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