计算机英语：什么是程序设计

What's Program Designing?

　　When we wish to direct the activities of a computer, we communicate with the computer in a computer language. Like human languages, computer languages have symbols that are grouped into words according to specified rules．These words are, in turn, combined to form statements of instructions．All the operations of a computer are directed by sequences or instructions. Such sequences are called programs，and a person who writes programs is called a programmer. The activity of writing programs is known as programming．

　　Programming is the creation of a computer program．The steps in programming are：

　　(1) Developing the program logic to solve the particular problem.
　　(2)writing the program logic in the form of specific programming language(coding the program)．
　　(3)assembling or compiling the program to turn it into machine language form．
　　(4) Testing and debugging the program.
　　(5) Preparing the necessary documentation.

翻译：

什么是程序设计

　　当我们从事计算机的活动时，我们用一种计算机语言与计算机进 行交流。与人类语言一样，计算机语言也是由一些根据特殊规则构成字的符号组成。这些字被依次联结成命令或语句。计算机的所有操作都是由一系列的命令完成的。这样一些序列叫做程序，编写程序的人叫做程序设计员，编写程序的活动叫做程序设计员。编写程序的活动叫做程序设计。

程序设计的步骤是：
　(1)研制程序逻辑以解决某一特别问题。
　(2)以某种编程语言的形式编写 程序逻辑（编程）。
　(3)汇编或者编译程序把它转换 成机器语名形式。
　(4)检测和调试程序。
　(5)准备必要的文件编制。