Source code

Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language.

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Human-readable - Programming language

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In modern programming languages, the source code which constitutes a program is usually in several text files, but the same source code may be printed in a book or recorded on tape (usually without a filesystem).

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Text file - Filesystem

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The term is typically used in the context of a particular piece of computer software.

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A computer program's source code is the collection of files that can be converted from human-readable form to an equivalent computer-executable form. The source code is either converted into an executable file by a compiler for a particular computer architecture, or executed on the fly from the human readable form with the aid of an interpreter.

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Executable - Compiler - Architecture - On the fly - Interpreter

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The code base of a programming project is the larger collection of all the source code of all the computer programs which make up the project. There is utility in this sort of aggregation as often the same source code file will be used by more than one of a project's different programs.

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