All the instructions you want the computer to understand.
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What is an opcode?
The part that gives the instruction.
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What is an operand?
The part of the code that tells you where the data is that you’re working with.
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What is an assembly language?
Low level programming where the instruction is given a mnemonic for each instruction.
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Why do we need programming languages?
To communicate with computers.
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What is machine code?
A code very close to the instructions a computer understands (binary).
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Compiler:
A compiler reads the whole high level code (the source code) and, if there are no errors, translates it into a complete machine code program (the object code), which is output as a new file and can be saved.
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Interpreter:
An interpreter reads the source code one instruction or line at a time, converts this line into machine code and executes it. The next line is read and translated and so on. This has to be done each time the program is run.
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