COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

COMPUTER SOFTWARE

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Processors only understand instructions written in 1s and 0s.
A
Machine language
B
Assembly language
C
High Level language
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Machine language gives instructions as 0’s and 1’s and is the only language that the computer understands. Assembly language is more concise but still very cumbersome when programming. A high-level language such as FORTRAN or C facilitates easy programming.

Detailed explanation-2: -Computers use binary to store data. Not only because it’s a reliable way of storing the data, but computers only understand 1s and 0s-binary. A computer’s main memory consists of transistors that switch between high and low voltage levels-sometimes 5V, sometimes 0.

Detailed explanation-3: -Machine and assembly languages A machine language consists of the numeric codes for the operations that a particular computer can execute directly. The codes are strings of 0s and 1s, or binary digits (“bits”), which are frequently converted both from and to hexadecimal (base 16) for human viewing and modification.

Detailed explanation-4: -A program written in assembly language consists of a series of mnemonic processor instructions and meta-statements (known variously as declarative operations, directives, pseudo-instructions, pseudo-operations and pseudo-ops), comments and data.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer: Machine language uses Binary digits ‘0’ and ‘1’ for giving instructions.

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