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Basic Concepts (2nd Class)

Computer languages can be classified into three categories: machine language, assembly language, and high-level languages. Machine language uses binary and is directly understood by CPUs, while assembly language is a low-level language used for operating systems and applications. High-level languages were developed to be more portable and user-friendly. Translators such as compilers and interpreters convert programs between languages, with compilers converting entire programs at once and interpreters converting incrementally. Assemblers translate assembly language to machine code.

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Basic Concepts (2nd Class)

Computer languages can be classified into three categories: machine language, assembly language, and high-level languages. Machine language uses binary and is directly understood by CPUs, while assembly language is a low-level language used for operating systems and applications. High-level languages were developed to be more portable and user-friendly. Translators such as compilers and interpreters convert programs between languages, with compilers converting entire programs at once and interpreters converting incrementally. Assemblers translate assembly language to machine code.

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Few Basic Concept

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TYPES OF COMPUTER LANGUAGE
 Code or syntax, used to write programs or
specific applications, defines computer language.
It is used to communicate with computers.
 Broadly computer language can be classified into
three categories:-
 assembly language,
 machine language,
 high-level language.
 Machine language is a code or object code
consisting of binary digits 0 and 1.
 A computer system can easily understand and
interpret these binary digits.
 Since a central processing unit (CPU) can
directly understand and interpret it, machine
language is considered a native language.

Machine Language
 The assembly language is low-level for
microprocessors and many other programmable
devices.
 The assembly language is also considered a second-
generation language.
 The first-generation language is machine language.
 The assembly language is mostly famous for writing
operating systems and desktop applications.

Assembly Language
 Programmers developed high-level languages in response
to the issues they faced while writing programs.
 The older language poses portability issues, as code
written on one machine cannot be easily transferred to
other machines.
 This led to the development of high-level language.
 The high-level language is easy to understand, and the
code can be written easily as the programs written are
user-friendly in a high-level language.

High-Level Language
Translator
 A translator is a programming language
processor that converts a computer program
from one language to another. 
 It takes a program written in source code and
converts it into machine code.
 It translates a high-level language program into
a machine language program that the central
processing unit (CPU) can understand. 
 It also detects errors in the program.

Purpose of Translator
 A compiler is a translator used to convert high-
level programming language to low-level
programming language. 
 It converts the whole program in one session
and reports errors detected after the
conversion. 

Compiler
 Just like a compiler, is a translator used to
convert high-level programming language to
low-level programming language. 
 It converts the program one at a time and
reports errors detected at once while doing the
conversion.

Interpreter
 Assembly language is difficult to understand as
it is a low-level programming language. 
 An assembler translates a low-level language,
an assembly language to an even lower-level
language, which is the machine code.

Assembler
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