ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Scrip

Script is like a set of instructions written for a computer or website to do a particular job. Think of it as a recipe book for a computer. For example, if you wanted your computer to calculate the square root of a number, you would have to write a script that would tell the computer how to do that calculation. The script would tell the computer the steps it needs to take in order to calculate the answer, such as which numbers to use and how to add them together, so that the computer would know exactly what to do.