Would a computer program be considered literature? [closed]

Solution 1:

I would advise against your including this in your homework if it is in English because, whatever the US Copyright Act or Wikipedia say, a teacher of English Literature (and the man in the street) is unlikely to regard it as literature.

Indeed, I write computer programs myself, but do not regard them as literature. They may be an original intellectual construct, perhaps with some mathematical or logical beauty, but they are merely a set of instructions to a machine on how to perform a task. However satisfied I was with them, I would not read them aloud at a literary festival. (Andy Warhol may have disagreed on this.)