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How does a human create a program?
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How does a human create a program?

The goal of this project is to decipher the steps that a human takes to create a new program, and create a program that will follow those steps in order to generate a basic "Hello World" program.

Input

"Create a hello world program"

Steps

  1. What is a hello world program?
    • Google what a hello world program is
    • Get program definitions
      • Inputs?
      • Outputs?
    • What language is it written in?
      • C?
      • Python?
      • Bash?
  2. Read code from the internet
    • Look at stack exchange / google for examples
    • Compare the code from multiple examples
  3. Generate a program
    • Compile code samples from internet
    • Compare output from each program
    • Does the output match the expected output?
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