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COMPUTER

PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGES

Ifunanya Iloh
Objective
s
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to;

Describe computer programming.


Identify a computer program.
Explain what a computer programming language is
Examples of hardware components
Describe a computer professional.
State the types of computer professionals
Computer Programming
Language
Computer programming
Language can be defined as an
act of writing a program which a
computer can execute to
produce the expected or desired
result (output).
Types of Programming
they are;
Language
There are basically three types of programming language,

1. Machine Language: This can be regarded as the original


computer language. It is made up of instruction codes written
in binary form (0s and 1s) and because it is documented in
long strings of binary digit, it is not easy to understand
thereby lead to an advent of low-level and high-level
language.
2. Low-level Language: This is also known as assembly
language. It is a program written using symbols to denote
codes. Its codes are more meaningful and easy to learn. For
this language to be in a computer readable form, it has to be
translated by a software or translator called an assembler.
Types of Programming
Language
3. High level Language: These programming languages are
developed with the purpose of contributing to the solutions of
business or scientific problems and they allow statements to
be made closer to natural human language such as English. It
is not sensitive to machine or computer unless it is translated
by translators called interpreter or complier.

Examples of High level Languages


1. BASIC: Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
2. FORTRAN: Formular Translator
3. COBOL: Common Business Oriented Languages
Examples of High level Languages
4. JAVA: Developed by sun microsystems and named after an
island called JAVA
5. VB: Visual BASIC
Advantages of high level languages

1. Debugging of errors is made easy


2. They are easy to comprehend because they are closer to
human language
3. They can be transferable from one computer to the other
4. It provides the students with an ability to interact directly
with the computer.

Disadvantages of high level languages


1. It is less flexible in structure
2. Greater storage capacities and more running time is needed
compared to low level and machine languages.

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