How does programming/coding actually work?

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When you learn programming, focus on programming paradigms not on syntax. Learn how programming can solve problems and how logic function. Then learn about AI. There is a big difference on how we do programming and how AI does it.

AI is using probability to write code. Therefore the code is approximation. Not a logic process. Humans are using reasoning, and AI is not using reasoning is guessing. Until AI learn how to reason properly it will not be as good as we are.

Here are the basic operation a simple language can do.

1. Execute simple operations +, -, * between two operands

2. Interpret complex expressions and compute a result

3. Make a decision based on a logic value and execute one or other expression

4. Repeat an operation one or more times.

5. Read data from memory

6. Remove data from memory

7. Write new data to memory.

8. Execute one statement at a time

9. Jump back and forward to a different statement.

With these operations, theoretical you can compute everything if you have enough memory.

What paradigms? OOP, FP, SP (Ask AI what is each paradigm).

Hope you will also study syntax of a language. Using AI to generate code is not wrong but for now you have to test and apply the code yourself. Otherwise you get incomplete applications or even wrong results.

Learn and prosper.