A brief History of Programming

Machine code written for one computer can run on all computers

• True

• False

One example of an instruction at the level of machine code is to:

• Store a number

• Delete a word

• Add an image

• Make a noise

What are the 2 parts of the instruction?

• Opinstruction and Opmemory

• Opcommand and Opstate

• Opcode and Operand

• Opcommand and Opmemory

Assembly language is a high level language

• True

• False

A programming language using words and commands easy for humans to understand and organize, but which must be translated into machine language or object code for the computer to understand and execute is generally described as a:

• Functional language

• Object-oriented language

• High-level language

• Low-level language

The language directly understood and executed by a computer, consisting of pure 0s and 1s.

• COBOL language

• Pascal language

• Machine language

• Assembly language

Which term below best describes the process where the instructions from a program are converted all at once from a high level language to a low level language, and then executed?

• Compiling

• Interpreting

• Assembling

One of the original high level languages created by John Backus to make programming easier for math and science applications.

• C++

• Fortran

A compiled, English-like computer programming language designed for business use, designed under the leadership of Commodore Grace Hopper.

• COBOL

• Pascal

Which of the following translates low level assembly language mnemonic into machine code

• Assembler

• Compiler

• Interpreter