Discuss two ways that you can enter a program into a computer.

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To enter the program into a computer so you can translate and execute it, you usually use a keyboard to type program statements into an editor. You can type a program into one of the following:

A plain text editor

A text editor that is part of an integrated development environment

A text editor is a program that you use to create simple text files. It is similar to a word processor, but without as many features. You can use a text editor such as Notepad that is included with Microsoft Windows. An advantage to using a simple text editor to type and save a program is that the completed program does not require much disk space for storage.

You can use the editor of an integrated development environment (IDE) to enter your program. An IDE is a software package that provides an editor, a compiler, and other programming tools.

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