New beginner coding series explains what a program is in its first installment

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A new beginner-friendly series called Cuppa and Code has launched on DEV Community. Its first installment, published November 1 by Amy Hudspith, answers the question of what a program is. The episode is designed to take roughly ten minutes and introduces coding basics using Python and Jupyter. It is aimed at readers with little or no programming experience and is tagged as a tutorial.

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