Programming is the process of giving instructions to a computer. To put it bluntly, programming is the process of giving instructions to any automated machine. Speaking of computers, thousands of instructions start working as soon as you turn on the computer. We turn on the computer and listen to music , the music player is a program. Which includes a lot of instructions. We play games. One game, one program. There are many thousands of instructions. And the job of writing these instructions is programming.