CS 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Semicolon, Netbeans, Text Editor
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A schedule of events, like a theatre script for your cpu. Computers do not know english obviously, their native language is called machine language. They speak in binary, which means, adding two numbers together. ". Different types of computers, or devices, have different translations of machine language. Assembly language, a well know low-level language, was created to be easier for humans to write programs, it uses english-like abbreviations. We write programs in assembly, then use a program to translate it in machine language. Assembly is still dependent on different types of cpu, so that is why assembly is considered a. This is a step up from assembly, it is more english-based. There"s a lot of high-level languages because they are usually made for a specific purpose. They must be translated in machine language by using a compiler or an interpreter, maybe even both, depending on language. Basically a text editor for programs, like a compiler.
