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- 1Variables What is a variable?A Variable is a piece of information
given to a computer. It can be changed
in the middle of a sub-routine! - 2Modulo What does Modulo do?Modulo or % calculates: a number divided by another number, then takes the remainder that was indivisible by that number and shows us that
- 3TranslatorsA piece of translator software, that converts high-level languages into machine code. They are known as compilers and interpreters. Programs are translated using either a compiler or interpreter.
- 4High-Level LanguageThis is code that has to be translated for computers to use. It is made to make programmers' lives easier by using more words instead of numbers.
- 5Machine CodeInstructions written in binary codes of the processors 'saved instructions'.
- 6MnemonicsThese are pieces of code which have been abbreviated into letters.
- 7AssemblerA machine that changes abbreviations in code like ADD into machine code 00111 using a lookup table.
- 8Instruction setThe dictionary holding all the computers instructions.
- 9RegisterThe section of high speed memory within the CPU that stores data to be processed.
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