FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The second generation is also called:
A
Machine
B
Assembly
C
Low level
D
High level
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Assembly or assembler language was the second generation of computer language. By the late 1950s, this language had become popular. Assembly language consists of letters of the alphabet. This makes programming much easier than trying to program a series of zeros and ones.

Detailed explanation-2: -Second Generation: By 1950, computers were being programmed in assembly language. As we saw earlier, one line in Assembly Language is translated into one machine instruction by a program called an assembler. At this time, computers were so expensive and slow that this was the only feasible method of programming.

Detailed explanation-3: -second generation in British English noun. 1. a. the offspring of parents born in a given country.

Detailed explanation-4: -The second-generation languages are also called assembler languages/ 2G languages. Assembly language contains human-readable notations that can be further converted to machine language using an assembler. Assembler – converts assembly level instructions to machine level instructions.

Detailed explanation-5: -Assembly languages or asm is a low-level language that is used to implement the code in machine code which directly interacts with the system hardware. It is a second-generation language based on the machine code which is a first-generation language.

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