Computer programming vs algorithm

An algorithm describes the finite procedural steps required to solve a problem. Algorithms are typically written so humans can easily understand those steps. Computer programming is the means by which a computational problem is converted into executable code. This often entails the development of algorithms which must be converted from the human-readable form into native machine code, typically using high-level programming languages to produce the abstract, human-readable source code, and compilers or interpreters to produce the machine-readable code.