Creating Software

Creating Software

1. IDE

   • Translators
     • An interpreter is used to translate the high level code into low level code
   • Editor
     • Auto indents code
     • Colour codes command words
     • Some also autocomplete code as you type it
   • Error Diagnostics
     • Used to debug your code
     • it locates errors and suggests ways in which to fix it
   • Run time environment
     • Allows you to run your code quickly so that you can test to see that it works
     • This is used during iterative testing (Testing when you are developing the program)

2. Programs

   • PyCharm uses
     • Error Diagnostics
     • Translator (interpreter)
     • Editor
     • Run Time Environment
   • PyScripter uses
     • Error Diagnostics
     • Run Time Environment
     • Translator (interpreter)
     • Editor
   • Python
     • Used in the 3rd Generation
       • 3rd Generation is easier to use for a programmer

3. Translators

   • Compiler
     • translates all of the original program code (source code) into an executable program (machine code).
   • Assembler
     • This is not used to translate High Level Languages
     • This is used to translate Assembly Code
     • This translator is used with the 2nd Generation
   • Interpreter
     • An Interpreter reads each line of a computer program and then converts or executes it directly without translating the entire program into machine code
   • Machine code
     • is a collection of binary digits (1s and 0s) that a computer can understand.
   • Assembly Language
     • uses a very simple command rather than a collection of numbers (the machine code) allowing humans to more easily read the code compared to the difficulty of looking at binary (1s and 0s).