2.5 Programming Languages and IDEs

What is machine code?

• Instructions and data in binary

• Serial number of the CPU

• Instructions and data in human readable form

• Instructions and data in assembly code mnemonics

What is assembly code?

• Another name for machine code

• High-level programming language

• Low-level programming language

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Why were high-level languages developed?

• Low-level language was too easy

• They were created by accident

• Low-level languages are hard to remember and use

What does a translator do?

• Swaps between different high-level languages

• Swaps between different machine code types

• Converts pseudocode to machine code

• Converts high level language to machine code

Which of the following is NOT a translator?

• Assembler

• Compiler

• Interpreter

• Executable

Why do we need translators?

• Computers only understand program's in assembly code.

• Computers only understand program's in high-level language.

• Computers only understand Norwegian.

• Computers only understand program's in machine language.

It translates the whole program into machine code before it runs.

• Assembler

• Compiler

• Interpreter

• Linker

It translates code into machine code instruction by instruction.

• Assembler

• Compiler

• Interpreter

• Linker

It translates assembly code into machine code.

• Assembler

• Compiler

• Interpreter

• Linker

In general, compiled code is quicker than interpreted code.

• True

• False