Learn Computer Basics in Plain English

I had to post this comic because it’s so familiar — not because I’m a programmer who gets asked tech support questions (in fact, I started out as a computer tech whose job it was to help with those kinds of problems. 

It’s familiar because I see people generally failing to understand the computer term “program” (and thus by extension the term programmer) most of the time.

Many computer users often seem to use “program” when they should be saying “install” — for example they’ll say “I programmed Word on my computer” when they meant they installed it on their computer. 

In equivalent terms, that’s kind of like saying you designed and built a TV set from scratch when in fact all you did was put it on a shelf and plug it in. :)

(via fuckyeahcomputerscience)