Summary of Programming Language
A programming language is a set of words, symbols and codes that enables a programmer to communicate instructions to a computer.
Programming is the act of writing instructions for computer to perform a specific task. These instructions or commands are written by computer experts known as programmers.
A programmer is someone who writes and modifies computer programs.
The three levels of programming languages are Machine language, Assembly language and High-level language.
Machine language is a low-level programming language that can be directly understood and obeyed by a machine (computer) without conversion (translation).
Assembly language is a second-generation language (2GL) which was developed to overcome some of the inconveniences of machine language. It is a low-level language that are sometimes described as being “close to the hardware”, and it uses mnemonic codes in place of numeric operation codes used by machine language.
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