Chapter 1 (A)
Chapter 1 (A)
Identifiers
Computer program: A sequence of instructions that the computer carries out to fulfill the
task.
Programming language: Provides a way to program a computer using instructions that can
be understood by computers and human. It has its own vocabulary and rules of usage.
Easy to express tasks from a particular problem domain.
Allow user to instruct computer to do a specific task in a certain instances (or data).
RULE 2
• Must begin with a letter or underscore ( _ ). It may NOT begin with a
number.
RULE 3
• May NOT contain blanks / spaces
RULE 4
• May NOT be special characters / reserved words / symbols.
• Eg: $, %, &, *, @, etc.
Analyze Analyze problem and its solution requirements.
Maintain and Maintain and document the program by using and modifying it if
document the problem domain changes.