Featured resource
2025 Tech Upskilling Playbook
Tech Upskilling Playbook

Build future-ready tech teams and hit key business milestones with seven proven plays from industry leaders.

Check it out
  • Course
    • Libraries: If you want this course, consider one of these libraries.
    • Core Tech

What Is Programming?

This is an accessible, language-agnostic course on the fundamentals of programming. Learn how to get started programming - in any language.

Simon Allardice - Pluralsight course - What Is Programming?
Simon Allardice
What you'll learn

If you want to begin programming, start here. In this fast-paced and entertaining course, What Is Programming, you'll learn the fundamentals, the essential ideas, and the concepts for success in any programming language. First, you'll learn how to write a computer program and learn how to get the computer to understand it. Next, you'll learn all about the syntax - or rules of programming languages. Finally, you'll explore how to make real-world programming easier, from libraries to frames, to SDKs and APIs. By the end of this course, you will not only be on your way to becoming a software developer, but will also have learned how to work with them, manage them, or live with one.

Table of contents

About the author
Simon Allardice - Pluralsight course - What Is Programming?
Simon Allardice

With over three decades of software development experience, Simon has programmed in every discipline: from finance to transportation, nuclear reactors to game development. His first video course released back in 2002: since then, his popular courses have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of developers. Simon obsesses on making complicated subjects accessible, memorable, and easier to learn.

Get access now

Sign up to get immediate access to this course plus thousands more you can watch anytime, anywhere.

Get started with Pluralsight