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DATE: 17TH JANUARY, 2025

TOPIC: COMPUTER PROGRAMMING


LANGUAGE
UNIT:
THROUGHLINE: BEAUTY CREATOR (GEN
1:31)
OBJECTIVES: AT THE END OF THE LESSON, I SHOULD BE ABLE TO:
 DEFINE A COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
 OUTLINE THE CATEGORIES OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGE
 DEFINE HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE
COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGE
All over the world, language is the source of communication
among human beings. Different countries/regions have
different languages. Similarly, in order to communicate with
the computer, user also need to operate in a language that
would be understood by the computer. For this purpose,
different languages are developed for performing different
type of task on the computer.

A programming language is a formal language for


communicating with a computer without the ambiguity
of human language.
Basically, computer language are divided into two
categories according to their interpretation.
1. Low level language
2. High level language
LOW LEVEL LANGUAGE
Low level computer language are machine
codes (or close to it). Computer cannot
understand instructions given in high level
language or in English. It can only understand
and execute instructions given in the form of
machine language. i.e language of 0’s and 1’s.

There are two types of low level language:


Machine language.
Assembly language.
MACHINE LANGUAGE
It is the lowest and most elementary level of programming
language and was the first type of programming language to
be developed. Machine language is basically the only language
that the computer can understand. The manufacturers
designed computers to obey just one language, its machine
code which is written in binary format (0’s and 1’s). The symbol
0 stands for absence of electric pulse and 1 for the presence of
electric pulse. Since a computer is capable of recognizing
electrical signals , there fore it understands machine language.
ADVANTAGES OF MACHINE LANGUAGE
I. It makes fast and efficient use of the computer.
II. It requires no translator to translate the code. i.e directly
understood by the computer.
DISADVANTAGES OF THE MACHINE LANGUAGE
III. All operation codes have to be remembered.
IV. It is hard to amend or find errors in a program written in a
machine language.
V. These language are machine dependent. i.e a particular
machine language can be used on only one type of
computer.
ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE
It was developed to overcome some of the many inconveniences of
machine language. This is another low level but a very important
language in which operation codes and operands are given in a form
of alphanumeric symbols instead of 0’s and 1’s. This alphanumeric
symbols are known as mnemonics.
Advantages of assembly language
1. It is easier to understand and use compared to machine language
2. It is easy to locate and correct errors
3. It is modified easily.
DISADVANTAGES OF ASSEMBLY
LANGUAGE
1. Like machine language, it is also machine dependent.
2. Since it is machine dependent, programmers should have
knowledge of the hardware.
HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE
High level computer language gives format close to English
language. It makes program development easy. High level
language is basically a symbolic language that use English words
and/or mathematical symbols rather than mnemonic code.

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