Blockchain Glossary

Source Code

Source Code

August 28th, 2021   |   Updated on March 9th, 2022

Source code is the fundamental component of a computer program that is created by a programmer. It can be read and easily understood by a human being.

When a programmer types a sequence of C programming language statements into Windows Notepad, for example, and saves the sequence as a text file, the text file is said to contain the source code.