12/27/2018

Class 6 Chapter 15 Introduction to computer programming Languages

Q.4. Answer the following questions:
a) What is a computer programming language?
Ans: The artificial languages which are used to develop computer programs are called programming languages.

b) What is low level language? Write its types.
Ans: A low-level language is a programming language that provides little or no abstraction of programming concepts and is very close to writing actual machine instructions.
Eg. Machine Level Language
      Assembly Language

c) What is assembly language?
Ans: Assembly Language is the low level programming language that consists letter, words and symbols or mnemonic codes to write program instruction. It is also known as Second Generation Language (2GL).

d) What is a machine level language?
Ans: A language, which uses binary code to write computer program, is called machine level language. It is also known as First Generation Language (1GL).

e) What is a high level language?
Ans: The artificial languages which are used to develop computer program and closer to English language are known as High Level Language (HLL). It is machine independent, program written for one processor can work for many different processor.

f) Write down some features of a high level language.

g) What is QBASIC? Why is it popular among beginners.
Ans: QBASIC is the most popular high level programming language in the BASIC family. QBASIC is very simple and easy to understand so it is popular among beginners.
h) List any four high level programming languages.