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Programming Language Essay

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Introduction To Programming Language

WHAT IS PROGRAMMING?
“COMPUTER PROGRAMMING IS THE ART OF MAKING A COMPUTER DO
WHAT YOU WANT IT TO DO”
A program is aaa collection of instructions written in any programming language. They tell a computer how to perform a some task. It is just like a recipe which tells us how to prepare a particular dish and also describes all its ingredients and the steps to follow. Programming is also very similar in concept.

WHAT IS LANGUAGE?
Language is the medium of communication and sending/receiving thoughts between two people. For communication, a medium is required which can be understand from both the sides and that medium is known as a language. Many different languages are used across …show more content…

3. High level language
These languages are used in modern times. These are simple enough so that a common man can easily understand them and can create a program. All the codes are written in English language here and a compiler is used to convert the program into machine language.

Translators
They are the softwares which are used to convert the programs written in human readable form to machine readable form that is machine language. Basically there are three translator softwares used in computer programming:
1. Assembler
Programs which are written in assembly language are converted into machine language with the help of assembler. It is a kind of software which convert the codes written in any text file into machine language and process them in CPU then CPU understand that code and return the desire result into human readable form i.e. English.
2. Compiler
It is used to convert the high level program codes into machine language. It converts the full source code into machine code at a time and shows all the errors combined.
3. Interpreter
It is also used to convert the high level program codes into machine language but it converts the code line by line and if it found error in any line then it stop further conversion and shows the error.

C at a Glance

C is a general-purpose computer

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