What is programming?

What is programming?

What is programming?

Programming is a medium for communicate with computers. Just like we use English language for communicate other person.

So, Programming is the way for us to deliver our instructions to the computer.

Types of programming languages 

There are approximately 700 programming languages in the world.

Some of them are written below:

C language:- Developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs(USA) in 1972. It's a Oldest and High performance language which is developed for System programming, Game development. 

    Extension:- ".c"

C++:- Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1983.which is developed for Game development, GUI applications. Original name "C with Classes" now rename as C++. 

    Extensions:- ".cpp" 

Java:- Developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems in 1995.which is developed for Designed & creating platform applications, Android apps development, web application. Original name "Oak" and now renamed as Java. 

    Extensions:- ".java" 

Python:-Developed by Guido van Rossum in 1991. Which is developed for Web development, Data science and machine learning. 

    Extensions:- ".py" 

JavaScript:- Developed by Brendan Eich at Netscape in 1995. Which is developed for Interactive web development, Backend development (Node.js), Mobile applications (React Native). Original name "Mocha" then LiveScript, now became JavaScript. 

    Extensions:- ".js"

PHP:- Developed by Rasmus Lerdorfin 1995.which is developed for content management system, server- side web development. Originaly developed for created as a set of tools for maintaining personal web pages. 

    Extensions:- ".PHP" 

Ruby:- Developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto in 1995. Which is developed for simplicity and productivity of web development & prototype. 

    Extensions:- ".rb"

C#:- Developed by Microsoft (led by Anders Hejlsberg) in 2000. Which is used in Windows applications. Game development (Unity).Web applications (ASP.NET). 

    Extensions:- ".cs"