Programming

   Programing is important to understand how a robot works, without it it is just wires and movable pieces of metal. To program is to provide a computer or machine how to perform an automatic task with coded instructions. Programming we used in class was not as complex as making them with algorithms on the computer but was still complex. The programming we did in class was that each sensor or moving part was wired into a port into the computer. You then chose a specific action and how it would perform it ( Ex. Move two wheels, forward) and then what would follow it until you reached your goal. Another thing we did was that we created individual programs for the robot to do if it sensed specific things and then added them to the bigger program overall ( Ex. sensing the color green and playing a sound. sensing the color blue and go backwards).

What programming looks like coded

Programming is used to make computers and calculators and other things we use every day, ways programming has been integrated into technology is that it is used in many things in the media. People program websites and online widgets using JavaScript and other programming systems. Programing is used to create the worlds and AI of things in video games and programming is also used in hacking which is  accessing a computers original program and changing it to access and steal data, send viruses, or take control of the computer allowing you to change things and is illegal , unless hired to hack a computer to check it's security.

To conclude programming is creating a code that machines follow and is used mainly in robots and computers but is used in the media and can be exploited to control private computers.