What are a set of well-defined steps for performing a task or solving a problem called in c++?

An Algorithm





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What are a set of well-defined steps for performing a task or solving a problem called in c++?
That would depend on what you are doing. If you are creating ("writing") new software as part of the task, that is called "Coding". If you happen to be looking at code that has already been written and doing some small changes so that is works better, that is a subset of coding, called "Debugging". If you are just looking at code to get ideas about how certain things can be done , then that is called "Reading". If you are doing a combination of all these things, that is an industry called "Software Development". Some people call the hard part of coding "Hacking". "Kernel Hacking" is something I could never do, for example, but some people, like Linus Torvalds "creator of Linux", have no problem with it.





And ya, a series of steps, often in a computer language like "BASIC", "ALGOL", "Pascal", "Python", "Java" or "C++" is an Algorithm.