What does a coder use when they make a program from scratch?

Question

I don’t understand what the starting point is. Do they just open a word document and start creating lines of code or is there some type of program that’s specifically used?

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Answer 1

nobody writes code from scratch anymore – they write code using code someone else wrote which was written using code someone else wrote etc, building on top of it.

A bit like how you don’t build a house from scratch; someone else makes the bricks, someone else makes the roof tiles, the plaster, chops the wood into planks etc.