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High level languages examples

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Basic
Java 
Pascal
COBEL
C#
C++
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What does High level programming allow?

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The ise of powerful commandsthat perform quite complex tasks such as MsgBox

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What is machine code made put of

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Made upof bit patterns that can be executed by the CPU

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Examples of Machine Code

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Opcodes and Operands

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Example of low level language

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Assembly Code

Source Code

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What does low level language require

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Knowledge of the internal structure of the CPU

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What does low level language use

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Mnemonics

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What is a compiler

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Converts source code into executable machine code. Once compiled, a program can be run at any time

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What is a interpreter?

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Converts each line of source code into machine code, and executes it as each line of
code is run. The conversion process is performed each time the program needs to be
run

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What is an editor?

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Aloows a programmer to enter,format and edit source code

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Linker?

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Allows previously compiled code to be linked together

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Loader

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A program that loads previously compiled code into memory

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Debugger

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Helps spot errors in code

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What is source code

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Makes up the program

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