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Differences between script and program.
Script is part of the instructions you write with text editor and have a file name ends with .py.
Program is similar to script but it is used to solve a problem. So a program might need some script to form.
In a nutshell, program is like a thesis, and script is like a chapter from it.

CPU execution reads machine language which is portable between different machines. However, Programming languages need something to be translated into machine language. The translators have two general categories:
1) Interpreters: reads the source code of the program written by the programmer and interprets it on the fly.
2) Compiler: needs to be handed the entire program in a file for later execution.

Two skills to be a programmer:
1. The programming language.
2. Tell a Story.