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title: "What is Documentation?"  
description: "What is Documentation?"  
author: "Simond Gear"  
published: 2017-11-13  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/30462/what-is-documentation  
category: "programming"  
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# What is Documentation?

What is Documentation?

## Answers

### Answer by Arti Mishra

**“Documentation”** Documentation is the information **that describes the line of code to the users.** It also **contains technical and manual online information (including version and its description).**The documentation is derived from the word **“document” that means “formal writing”.** But in another way documentation becomes a necessary part of our program that **adds some technical information after processing any programs.** ![What is Documentation?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/fbb7a15c-4c03-43a0-8c25-ddf5bf388c99/images/4beab116-cbaf-46af-ae56-4c9f84126588.png) \
These are some extra information for creating the documentation-

- It should be from the **point of view of the programmer**.
- It must be the **unambiguous format.**
- It should be always **updated format**.

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