Introduction to Programming

Cards (5)

  • High Level programming languages are designed to be understood by humans, while Low Level programming languages are designed to be understood by computers.
  • Although high level languages take more time to process, they are much easier to program and are portable.
  • There are two types of programs that process programming languages:
    • Interpreters
    • Compilers
  • An interpreter reads a high-level program and executes it line by line.
  • A compiler reads the entire program and translates it into source code before running.