FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

A hardware manufacturer has created a new 7.1 surround sound card. They need to provide a device driver with the hardware. What programming language would you suggest they use?

A	C#, VB
B	Assembly Language
C	PHP
D	None of the above

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Writing a Driver Device drivers are typically written in C, using the Driver Development Kit (DDK). There are functional and object-oriented ways to program drivers, depending on the language chosen to write in. It is generally not possible to program a driver in Visual Basic or other high-level languages.

Detailed explanation-2: -machine code (machine language)

Detailed explanation-3: -A compiler is a translator program which translates a high level programming language into equivalent machine language programs.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term “compiler” refers to the software that translates source code from a high-level programming language to a lower-level programming language (e.g., assembly language or machine code).

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