We call a list of instructions an algorithm. The list of instructions we give to a computer is called a computer program. It is a special type of algorithm that a computer can understand.

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Nancy Pearl, author of the best-selling "Book Lust" series, creator of the internationally recognized program "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book" (which became "Seattle Reads"), and model for the ...