Sadly, this isn’t an algorithm for conquering the world.
No, it’s about the joys to be found playing make-believe with future users of an app you’re writing… eg like this Day 01 programming task: to write a countdown timer (and feel like Elon Musk for the rest of the day):
“3
2
1
Liftoff!”
“I can do that already, by just typing that out!” – you might protest.
But this way (the programming way) you can arrange things such that anyone who uses your app gets asked if they’d rather count down from 10 instead – or from like a hundred, or a million (they might not have finished getting their spaceships ready for launch just yet).
There’s no limit to it with a program. Just a few clicks – instead of having to type out every number between 1 and a million…
“4
3
2
1
Liftoff!
Type ‘R’ to repeat, or ‘Q’ to quit the program. If you’d like to check the weather where you live then close this down and go and do that.”
No limit to how much you can customise your app – how much personality you can bolt on, once the main mechanism is bullet proof…
So, do yourself a favour and check out Scratch. It’s an easy introduction to the world of programming.