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Computer programs are all written in some sort of programming code language (there are numerous code languages) that tells the computer what to do.

However, the programmers that do the writing are people and therefore sometimes make mistakes. These mistakes, which can keep the program from functioning as intended, are called "bugs" or "glitches". They may be simple things like a mis-typed line of code, or more complex things like software conflicts.

Debugging is basically removing or fixing these mistakes so that the program will work properly.

They are called "bugs" because of an incident in the early days of computing, when computers took up whole rooms.

In 1947 the cause of an error in Harvard's Mark II computer was found to be a moth that had become trapped in the circuitry.

Thus, the first "computer bug" was in fact an actual bug.

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