This resource links to the Australian Curriculum - Technologies / Digital Technologies: Years 3 and 4An algorithm is a computer procedure, a bit like a recipe or procedure that tells your computer exactly what steps it needs to take to solve a problem or complete a task. Instructions are step-by-step explanations of how to do something: how to build, operate, repair, or maintain things. For a computer to do something, you need to give the computer processor a set of instructions so it knows how