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programming language - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Machine code is the set of instructions that a CPU understands directly and can act upon, A program written in machine code would be binary (1s+0s)
        
        This is very difficult to write and debug. Even a simple program could have thousands of 0s and 1s in it.
    - - Assembly language sits between machine code and high level language in terms of ease and use
        
        While high level languages use statements to form instructions, assembly language uses mnemonics -short abbreviations
        
        Each mnemonic directly corresponds with a machine code instruction. Mnemonics are much easier to understand and debug than machine code, giving programmers a simpler way of directly controlling a computer
- - - - Compiled programs run quickly, since they have already been translated
      - A complied program can be supplied as an executable file
      - Compliers optimise code. This can run quicker and take up less memory space
    - - The source code must be re-compiled every time the programmer changes the program
      - Source code compiled on one platform will not run on another - the machine code is specific to the processor's architecture