COMPUTER SOFTWARE
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
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machine language
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instruction set
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programming language
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motherboard
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RAM
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Detailed explanation-1: -Programs. A computer program is a list of instructions that can be executed by a central processing unit (CPU).
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer. Set of instructions executed directly by a computer’ s CPU is MACHINE CODE or MACHINE LANGUAGE.
Detailed explanation-3: -Machine language is the language understood by a computer. It is very difficult to understand, but it is the only thing that the computer can work with. All programs and programming languages eventually generate or run programs in machine language.
Detailed explanation-4: -The CPU executes a program that is stored as a sequence of machine language instructions in main memory. It does this by repeatedly reading, or fetching, an instruction from memory and then carrying out, or executing, that instruction.