FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS

WHAT IS PROGRAMMING

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

What does a translator do?

A	Swaps between different high-level languages
B	Swaps between different machine code types
C	Converts pseudocode to machine code
D	Converts programs to machine code

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -An interpreter translates source code into machine code one instruction at a time. It is similar to a human translator translating what a person says into another language, sentence by sentence, as they speak. The resulting machine code is then executed immediately. The process is called interpretation .

Detailed explanation-2: -A compiler is a special program that translates a programming language’s source code into machine code, bytecode or another programming language. The source code is typically written in a high-level, human-readable language such as Java or C++.

Detailed explanation-3: -A program that converts a high-level language source file into a machine-language file is called a compiler.

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