Programming a computer

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After reading the description of computer program instructions in Chapter 3, the reader may well be approaching this chapter with trepidation, not without justification, since programming a computer at that level, in instructions drawn directly from a machine’s basic instruction set, is both tedious and very detailed. In fact, for most computer users, including perhaps 95 per cent of all computer programmers, writing computer programs is a much less difficult, if still demanding, task and one that is within the grasp of a large number of people, at a certain level, who are not professional programmers.