Creating software

Creating software

1. integrated development environment

   • tools provided by an IDE
     • Translator
       • Auto documentation
     • Debugger
     • Libraries
     • Build automation

2. High level language

   • Examples
     • Python
     • ECMAScript
     • Visual Basic
     • Delphi
     • Perl

3. translators

   • compiler
     • translates computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another language (the target language).
     • we need compiler because it allows us to communicate with hardware.
   • interpreter
     • to translate source code from high-level language to machine language
     • immediately executes code

4. low level language

   • examples of this
     • assembly code
     • machine code
   • what are the features of this language
     • Machine language is closest language to the hardware. Assembly language is an improvement over machine language