up employing something called programming, the act of constructing, telling a computer to do your bidding.

你们会使用一种叫做程序设计的方法，或称之为构建，即让计算机去执行你的命令。

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Now, unlike high school math or in algebra Z where you call things X and Y and Z, in programming, in computer science, you're actually dealing with humans where it's useful to have a variable name that's more descriptive than X and Y and Z.

不像高中数学或者代数中,称为X和Y和，在程序设计和计算机科学里，你实际上是在和人打交道,在这里有个描述性比xyz更强的,变量名称是很重要的。

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