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Classification of programming languages: Show awareness of the development of types of programming languages and their classification into low-and high-level languages. Know that low-level languages are considered to be: • machine-code • assembly language. Know that high-level languages include imperative high-level language. Describe machine-code language and assembly language. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of machine-code and assembly language programming compared with high-level language programming. Explain the term ‘imperative high-level language’ and its relationship to low-level languages.
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Classification of programming languages: Show awareness of the development of types of programming languages and their classification into low-and high-level languages. Know that low-level languages are considered to be: • machine-code • assembly language. Know that high-level languages include imperative high-level language. Describe machine-code language and assembly language. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of machine-code and assembly language programming compared with high-level language programming. Explain the term ‘imperative high-level language’ and its relationship to low-level languages
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Which pair consists entirely of low-level programming languages?
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Machine code and assembly language
Key terms
- Low-level language: A programming language close to the instructions used by a processor; machine code and assembly language are low-level languages.
- Imperative high-level language: A high-level language that describes how a task is carried out by specifying a sequence of instructions.
Common trap
Confusing assembly language with a high-level language: Assembly language is still low-level because its symbolic instructions remain closely related to machine-code instructions.
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