Forms of programming

Forms of programming

1. Machine languages

   • They allow programmers to code directly into the processor

2. Assembly languages

   • They are an abstraction of machine languages. They perform functions

3. Interpreted languages

   • They are more easy to read by humans than machine and assembly languages
     • It needs a component called interpreter to read the code and turn it into native instructions to the computer
       • JavaScript is an example of this language

4. Compiled language

   • Takes instructions written by humans and sends them to something called a compiler
     • This creates an executable program in binary code that is native to the computer
       • C is an example of this language

5. Object Oriented Programming

   • It treats everything as an object
     • Objects perform actions, store values , accept and return values
       • Java and C# are examples of this

6. Data Languages

   • They are used to be working with data.
     • Instead of performing an algorithm in order, you ask a database a question and they give you a dataset
       • R and SQL are an example of these

7. Functional programming

   • Instead of following and algorithm you perform transformation of values like functions do in maths
     • Examples of these are : Scaela and F#

8. Scripting languages

   • They allow operating systems to store commands as a script that can be run multiple times and distributed to several computers
     • Examples of these are: Powershel, Perl and Bash