We might say, even if we are smart enough to build programs that can, by mechanistically following the program, do things we've never thought of.

我们或许说,即使我们非常聪明,可以编制些,能够机械地执行指令的程序,做一些我们从来没想到的事情

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So in your mind, if you are now the computer program and you are executing this thing from top to bottom, what just has happened verbally is we are stepping into the line of code that says sort left half of elements.

在你们看来，如果你现在是计算机程序,正在从上到下执行一系列指令，刚才所发生的就是我们现在已执行到了这行代码,它告诉你要对左半部分的元素排序。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Remember last time, I said that there's different kinds of complexity in our code, and I suggested for simple branching programs, the amount of time it takes to run that program is, in essence, bounded by the number of instructions, because you only execute each instruction at most once.

但是这里有个很重要的点,记得上节课，我提过在我们的代码中，有不同种类的复杂度，而且我还说了对于简单的分支程序,运行这种程序需要的总体时间,大体上，是和指令的数目相关的,因为每个指令只会被执行最多一次。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It's a sequence of instructions.

那就是程序，就是指令序列。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But literally all I can do at this stage is write what we would call a straight-line program, that is, a program in which we execute in which we execute the sequence of instructions one by one.

但是字面上来说,我们现在学到的,都是所谓的直线程序，也就是，一个接一个的执行,一系列的,指令的程序。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I'm gonna run the command called Nano which is a very simple program.

运行名为“Nano“的指令,这是一个非常简单的程序。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It ran through that sequence of instructions, in particular it bound x to the value three, x and then it took x times x, got the value of x multipied by x, which of course is nine, bound that to the value of x, and then it printed out the value, and now it's sitting here waiting for an input.

程序按照指令的顺序去执行的，首先是把x和3这个值进行了绑定，然后把x乘以，得到了x乘以x的值，当然也就是9了，然后把x和这个值进行了绑定，然后显示出这个值，然后就等待输入。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选