Basic Programming Language

What is the only thing that computers understand?

• Machine Code

• Low Level Languages

• High Level Languages

• Algorithms

Before a computer can understand a program it must be...

• Translated into its machine code.
• Translated into a high level language.
• Translated into a low level language.
• Converted into binary.

A language that is close to human language and which is easy to write, debug and maintain is known as...

• A High Level Language
• A Low Level Language
• An Algorithm
• Machine Code

Resolving errors in a program is known as...

• Debugging
• Refixing
• Error Checking
• Problem Solving

Which of the following is not a high level programming language?

• Assembly
• C++
• Java
• Python

The two categories of low level language are...

• Machine Code & Assembly
• Machine Code & Algorithms 
• Assembly & Algorithms
• Algorithms & Binary

What is the name for the software used to convert an assembly language program into machine code?

• Assembler
• Interpreter
• Compiler
• Translator

Software that translates and executes a high level language program one line at a time is known as a?

• Compiler
• Interpreter
• Assembler
• Executor

Here are two lines from an assembly language program. What is the correct term to describe the contents of the area with the red border?

• Operands

• Mnemonics

• Memory locations

• Machine Code

Which is NOT a high-level language?

• Python

• C++

• Machine Code

• Java

• Visual Basic