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The Mechanics of Programming

Not many people know this, but coding is a lot like writing. When we write, we use expressions and phrases to express what we are thinking. We do the same thing in programming, only instead of words and sentences, we use things like variables, methods, and classes.

Take this sentence, for example:

How do you think we could write this sentence in a way a computer could understand? Well, one way you could do it in Java is like this:

This is called a variable. It’s an abstraction of some thought or thing we want to represent ...