Unit 2. Programming 1 ESO

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There are a lot of automated tasks in the world around us. These tasks are controlled by a computer through programming.

Programming is the way in which we tell the computer what, when and where to do something. In order to do that, we need a computer program, which is a set of instructions to perform an activity or to do a task.

Instructions are called algorithms and they are different depending on their function. Algorithms are represented in a flowchart.

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Programming languages.

Basically, there are two types of programming languages.

High-level language. Is the language of humans, made up of words.

Low-level language. Is the machine language, such as binary code (100010001000011)

We need to translate the high-level language into the low-level language we use a compiler, which is a kind of translator.