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

A compiler turns lines of code (written not in Word, but often in a text editor with better styling for code) into an executable program.

A compiler is often written in another language, and ran through that language’s compiler.

First compiler was (roughly) hand-written machine code.

So it’s compilers all the way down.