creating computer programs.

it's the second day of the last term... i'm so tired ==" i didnt want to wake up this morning.
anyway.... definitions..

1. algorithms - this is the thing used to complete something on the computer. it tells the computer what to do, the way you want to, and how it's going to do it.

2. pseudocode - kind of like the shortcut to describing a computer program.

3. machine language - programming language where instructions are in binary code of the computer.

4. high level comupter language - something like C, Fortran and Pascal ? these are considered high level because they are closer to human languages and not machine languages.

5. flowchart - these are used in complex situations. example; used in a programming code or troubleshooting a computer.

6. flowchart symbols used for :
~ beginning and ending a set of instructions - ovals or rounded rectangles
~ decision making - a diamond looking thing
~ a process or action - a rectangle.