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Unit 4 - Features and Characteristics of Programming Languages

The document outlines the features and characteristics of various programming languages, categorizing them into low-level and high-level languages, procedural, object-oriented, event-driven, machine, and scripting languages. It highlights the advantages and use cases of each type, such as low-level languages providing hardware control, high-level languages simplifying programming, and scripting languages automating web and system processes. Each category is associated with specific languages and their applications in real-world problem-solving.

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Unit 4 - Features and Characteristics of Programming Languages

The document outlines the features and characteristics of various programming languages, categorizing them into low-level and high-level languages, procedural, object-oriented, event-driven, machine, and scripting languages. It highlights the advantages and use cases of each type, such as low-level languages providing hardware control, high-level languages simplifying programming, and scripting languages automating web and system processes. Each category is associated with specific languages and their applications in real-world problem-solving.

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FEATURES AND

CHARACTERISTICS OF
PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGES
 Computer can process low-level language
easier as its instructions talk directly to the CPU.
 Whereas with high-level language must be
translated into machine code by
HIGH AND LOW a compiler for the CPU to execute instructions.
LEVEL  Low-level languages provides control over
computer hardware, but it is time consuming
LANGUAGES and complex to use.
 High-Level Languages abstracts
the difficulties of talking to the hardware
directly which makes it faster and easier to use.
PROCEDURAL - All programming Languages are procedural

Features and Characteristics


- Considered a multi-purpose tool and used to create many different type of
applications
- Usually written as a set of well-defined steps which solves a set problem.
- If the steps become too complicated the programmer while choose to divide the
steps into separate procedures each with a single purpose that can be used
multiple times.
OBJECT-ORIENTATED - C++ , C# and Java

Features and Characteristics


- Relies on the concept of “classes” and “objects” to solve real world problems.
- Popular to use for designing videogames, database systems and user interface.
- “Class” are usually real world things such as bank accounts, products and orders.
- Each “class” act as a blueprint containing its data or properties and behaviours in
programming language
- The programmer will then create specific interactions between this different
objects to solve the problem.
- As each class exist separately you can change them without it negatively effecting
The whole solution.
EVENT - DRIVEN - Pythion, Ruby and Java

Features and Characteristics


- Popular for the development of graphical applications,
- Typically work non-sequentially with user selecting what the program will do rather
than it following set of inputted instructions.
- Programmer usually create event handles code that will specify an action to
preform when a certain event is triggered via a listener.
- A listener is a process that’s waits for certain events to happen
MACHINE - Machine code and Assembly Language

Features and Characteristics


• Lowest level programming language which control over basic hardware in a
machine.
• Must be written for a specific CPU family which means can't be run easily
on different platforms.
• Assembly language uses mnemonics to represents basic CPU instructions.
• Mnemonics come in the form of opcodes describing the operation being
performed and operands which are the values being processed by the
Operation
• Assembly language needs to be translated to machine code using a program
called assembler.
• Machine language are usually used when speed is vital or when low-level access
to computer hardware or communication with connecting electronics is important.
SCRIPTING - Perl, JavaScript, Ruby And PHP

Features and Characteristics


• Script languages are used for different purposes.
• JavaScript is used in web design to automate process and add interactive features
to a web page.
• PHP is a popular sever-side script used to create complex applications.
• Perl and Ruby are used to automate system processes on a computer by linking
and executing tasks that original ran separately.

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