part igetting started with python place each piece of bread in its own slot push the toaster lever down to start toasting the bread wait for the toasting process to complete remove toast from the toaster place toast on plate butter the toast your procedure might vary from the one presented herebut it' unlikely that you' butter the toast before placing it in the toaster of courseyou do actually have to remove the bread from the wrapper before you toast it (placing the breadwrapper and allinto the toaster would likely produce undesirable resultsmost people never actually think about the procedure for making toast howeveryou use procedure like this one even though you don' think about it computers can' perform tasks without procedure you must tell the computer which steps to performthe order in which to perform themand any exceptions to the rule that could cause failure all this information (and moreappears within an application in shortan application is simply written procedure that you use to tell the computer what to dowhen to do itand how to do it because you've been using procedures all your lifeall you really need to do is apply the knowledge you already possess to what computer needs to know about specific tasks writing procedures down when was in grade schoolour teacher asked us to write paper about making toast after we turned in our papersshe brought in toaster and some loaves of bread each paper was read and demonstrated none of our procedures worked as expectedbut they all produced humorous results in my casei forgot to tell the teacher to remove the bread from the wrapperso she dutifully tried to stuff the piece of breadwrapper and allinto the toaster the lesson stuck with me writing about procedures can be quite hard because we know precisely want we want to dobut often we leave steps out -we assume that the other person also knows precisely what we want to do many experiences in life revolve around procedures think about the checklist used by pilots before plane takes off without good procedurethe plane could crash learning to write great procedure takes timebut it' doable you may have to try several times before you get procedure that