Read the Text and Make up the Plan of the Programming Process.

There are steps of the programming process:
A program usually provides a solution to a given problem - for example, how to calculate wages and income tax in a big company. First of all, you have to understand exactly what the problem is and define it clearly. This means you have to decide, in a general way, how to solve the problem. The next step is to design a step-by-step plan of instructions. This usually takes the form of a flowchart, a diagram that uses special symbols to show how the program works - where it makes decisions, where it starts and ends, where data is input.
Next, you write the instructions in a programming language, like BASIC, Pascal or C. These computer instructions are called source code. Then you have to use a compiler, a special program that converts the source code into machine code \(the only language understood by the processor which consists of 1s and Os\).
Once you've written the program, you have to test it with sample data to see if there are any bugs or errors. The process of correcting these errors is called debugging. Computer programmers have to find the origin of each error, write the correct instruction, compile the program again and test it until it works correctly.
Finally, you have to write program documentation, a detailed description of how to use the program.