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SUBJECT
(Chapter 7) High- and low-level languages - 2 Hour

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INSTRUCTIONS
• Answer all questions.
• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name, centre number and
candidate number.
• Do not use an erasable pen or correction fluid.
• You may use a calculator.
• Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.

INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 50.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.

ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Try to answer every question.
• Check your answers if you have time at the end.

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 High- and low-level languages
1 What is a program? [2 marks]
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2 The following terms are used about high-level programming languages. [3 marks]
State what each term means.
a Portable
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b Problem solving
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c Translation
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3 Give four examples of high-level programming languages. [4 marks]
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4 Give four benefits to a programmer of developing a program using a high-level
programming language. [4 marks]
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5 The following terms are used about low-level programming languages. State what
each term means. [2 marks]
a Machine code
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b Assembly language
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6 Give four benefits to a programmer of developing a program using a low-level
programming language. [4 marks]
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7 Using the programming statements in Chapter 7 of the Cambridge IGCSE Computer
Science textbook, show what the program code for adding two numbers (FrirstNumber
and SecondNumber) together could look like: [4 marks]

a HILL
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b LLL
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c Hexadecimal
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d Binary
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8 (a) What is a translator? [2 marks]
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(b) Name three different types of translator. [3 marks]
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(c) For each translator describe which type of language it is used for and what is
produced after a successful translation. [6 marks]
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9 (a) What is meant by a syntax error? [2 marks]
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(b) What is meant by a logic error? [2 marks]
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(c) What happens when a compiler finds a syntax error? [2 marks]
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(d) What happens when an interpreter finds a syntax error? [2 marks]
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10 Eight statements are shown on the left and three translators are shown on the right.
Draw lines to connect each statement to the translator it applies to (there can be more
than one line to a translator). [8 marks]

One low-level language statement is usually

translated into one machine code
Instruction.

Translates a high-level language program

into machine code. Compiler

Assembled programs can be used without

this.

No executable file of machine code is Interpreter

produced

Executes a high-level language program a

statement at a time
Assembler

Compiled programs are used without this.

Translates a low-level language program

into machine code.

One high-level language statement can be

translated into several machine code
Instructions.

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