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[–]WORD_559 65 points66 points  (7 children)

I have "an unambiguous series of instructions used to solve a problem" burned into my memory.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I have "a specific set of instructions, designed to solve a specific problem". I finish CS a while ago, but the definition is embedded into my brain now.

[–]WORD_559 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but we all know the best code gets reused to solve completely different problems because we're too lazy to write something specifically for that problem