Coding can be hard to conceptualize, so let's take a detour into the future...
Introducing the Chef-o-matic 4000
It’s hard cooking after an exhausting day at work. The Chef-o-matic 4000 creates healthy homemade meals for your family. Save your time-off for your family, not cooking.
How it works
Type in the recipe name and the robot will do the rest of the work.
Adding new dishes
Download and install CookShop onto your computer. Type in instructions like this:
Open refrigerator door.
Pull eggs out of refrigerator.
Crack open eggs into bowl x 4.
Add salt and pepper
Hold spatula
So on so forth...
Back to the present...
When computers first started, they were just command prompts.
Similar to the Chef-o-matic 4000, we use the command prompt to select which “recipe” to run. In computer speak, it’s called “executing commands”. But instead of cooking dishes, computers run code. Code, like a recipe, is a list of instructions. And just like how we use CookShop to edit recipes or Microsoft Word to edit documents, we use IDEs to edit code.