FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS

WHAT IS PROGRAMMING

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

Which type of code is assembly language?

A	High level code
B	Low level code
C	Either A or B
D	None of the above

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -What Is an Assembly Language? An assembly language is a type of low-level programming language that is intended to communicate directly with a computer’s hardware. Unlike machine language, which consists of binary and hexadecimal characters, assembly languages are designed to be readable by humans.

Detailed explanation-2: -Machine code is very hard to follow because it uses binary code to represent the instructions. To provide a more human friendly version of machine code, assembly language is used. An assembly language statement is a line of text that translates into a single machine instruction.

Detailed explanation-3: -An assembly language is a type of low-level language of the computer that lets users write various programs by making use of the alphanumeric codes for a set of instructions instead of the numeric codes.

Detailed explanation-4: -A low-level language is a programming language that provides little or no abstraction of programming concepts and is very close to writing actual machine instructions. Two examples of low-level languages are assembly and machine code.

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