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Manmohan Sharma, Lovely Professional University Unit 1: Foundation of Programming Languages

Unit 1: Foundation of Programming Languages Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

1.1 Programming Language
1.2 Assembly Language
1.3 Assembly Program Execution
1.4 Assembler
1.5 Assembly Program and its Components

1.6 Machine Level Language
1.7 Higher Level Languages
1.8 Compiling High Level Language
1.9 Some High Level Languages

1.10 Summary
1.11 Keywords
1.12 Self Assessment
1.13 Review Questions
1.14 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

Explain programming language
Describe assembly language
Describe how to execute assemble program

Explain higher level language
Describe some high level language
Introduction

Computer is an electronic device which works on the instructions provided by the user. As the
computer does not understand natural language, it is required to provide the instructions in
some computer understandable language. Such a computer understandable language is known
as Programming language.
A computer programming language consists of a set of symbols and characters, words, and
grammar rules that permit people to construct instructions in the format that can be interpreted
by the computer system.

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