Statements

A single meaningful line that a computer would process is called a statement. This is how we string keywords or operations together to let the computer know how something should be done.

Let's take our maze programming language example and extend it a bit. Instead of only having up, down, left, and right keywords which indicates the direction, we'll add go and look to modify what we want the program to do for a given direction.

go up

look left

look right

go up

For each line above, a computer does something with the keywords that we provide. Done right, the computer would know what to do when we tell it to go up, which would be a different action from look left.

Terminator

"I'll be back."

No, not that one.

Much like how keywords have a separator, and much like how English sentences has a period at the end, program statements also need a terminator to signify that the statement is complete. The most common terminator in programming is the semi-colon (;).

I'll be back;