High and Low Level Languages definitions

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  • Created on: 06-03-18 11:19
High Level Language
programming Language that is close to the human languages e.g. Python
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Low Level Language
A programming language that is close to the machine code e.g. assembly language
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Machine Code
The only code a CPU executes.
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Assembler
Program that converts assembly code into machine code
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Syntax
Structure of a language
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Instruction Set
The set of instructions that a particular CPU can execute, such as load a value into the accumulator or add numbers together
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Executable code
A file of machine code instructions, a program in machine code
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Mnemonic
he shorthand codes that assembly language uses. e.g. STA might mean store in accumulator.
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Compiler
A program that takes a program written in source code and produces executable machine code from it.
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Interpreter
A program that execute a program written in source code by translating the program line by line into machine code and executing it line by line
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Source Code
The program code written by a programmer which is the compiled, interpreted or assembled.
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Translator
An assembler, compiler or interpreter
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.exe
an executable file
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Assembly Language
A way of writing machine code using mnemonic codes
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A programming language that is close to the machine code e.g. assembly language

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Low Level Language

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The only code a CPU executes.

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Program that converts assembly code into machine code

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Structure of a language

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