Coding Concepts

So... what actually is code?

You have broken the problem down.

You have spotted the patterns.

You have ignored the unnecessary bits.

You have worked out the steps.

Excellent.

Now we need to tell the computer what to do.

Welcome to coding concepts.

These are the ideas we use to organise instructions, control what happens, make decisions, repeat actions and fix things when our wonderfully obedient computer does exactly what we told it to do... instead of what we meant.

Coding is more than typing code

When people hear the word coding, they often imagine a screen filled with mysterious symbols: