This section will have a number of video tutorials to help you through the different ideas. Programming is one of those topics which is best learnt through doing. The material covered here is a over view of the main programming techniques.

Applications, utilities and system software have all been written by someone in order to do specific tasks on a PC. Normally, software is produced by a team of people. People who create software are called programmers. Their job is to produce software for a given task.

Programming is the act of producing software. In order to program the programmer needs a number of things :-

• A Development environment
• A translator
• Knowledge of the language they are writing in