Creating software

Creating software

1. Integrated development environment

   • Translators
     • is used to translate the high level code into low level code.
   • Run time environment
     • Allows you to run your code quickly so that you can test to see that it works.
   • Editor
     • Colour codes command words
     • Auto indents code
   • Error diagnostics
     • Used to debug your code. It locates errors and suggests ways in which to fix it.

2. Computer languages

   • high level languages
   • low level languages
     • anguages that sit close to the computer's instruction set. An instruction set is the set of instructions that the processor understands.