AQA AS Computing: 8.2 Classification of software

Question 1

Software

Answer 1

Consists of sequences that instructions called programs can be understood and executed by hardware

Question 2

Assembler

Answer 2

Translates assembly language program into machine code

Question 3

Compiler

Answer 3

Translates high level language code into object code

Question 4

Interpreter

Answer 4

Analyses and executes a high-level language program a line at a time

Question 5

Object code

Answer 5

The machine code language of the target machine

Question 6

Bespoke software

Answer 6

Software written for a customer’s specific needs

Question 7

General-purpose software

Answer 7

Software that can be used for many different tasks

Question 8

Special-purpose software

Answer 8

Software designed to support one specific task

Question 9

First-generation languages

Answer 9

Machine-level programming language

Question 10

Second-generation language

Answer 10

Assembly code

Question 11

Third-generation language

Answer 11

Procedural language - statements translated into several machine code statements

Question 12

Fourth-generation language

Answer 12

Declarative programming language - define what is to be computed rather than how it is to be carried out