ITM 200 Chapter 1: Chapter 1

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 200
• Professor: Vikraman Baskaran

Document Summary

hard for users to read and understand. an upgrade from machine language so that it is easy to read and program. uses a converter called assembler to convert assembly language into machine code. easy of any programmer to read the code. an compiler is used to convert the language into machine code. a program in high-level language is called a source program. after the user is finished writing the code, he or she has to compiler it and then run it. when compiling a java program, we uses something called a compiler, which translates a computer program written (source code) in one language into another language (byte code) byte code: the java compiler converts your source code into a format named byte code that can be executed on many different kinds of computers.