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Programming Language

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What is communication?

question 1 of 16

Read and understand a text

It is an exchange of information between a sender and a receiver

Write an important information on your notebook

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Communication is the process of sending and receiving messages through verbal and non verbal means.

What are the activities requested by the process of conversing with a computer?

question 2 of 16

Switch on the deviceand insert your password

Communicating with a computer is always impossible

The process is similar to the one used among people

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The process of conversing with a computer required the following activities: think of what we want to say, figure out how to formulate it clearly and then say it. The response of the computer might be different from a human response but we must understand it before starting a new round of communication.

Is the communication with computers always successful?

question 3 of 16

No, beacause computer hardware might come up against failure

No, because it takes too much time

Yes, computers always respond to instructions

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CORRECT!

A breakdown can occur at any point along the process of conversing with a computer, especially when: - the power supply is interrupted - a wire or a transistor are burned or disconnected - a key board, mouse or printer don't work properly

What is a programming language?

question 4 of 16

It is a program created by a programmer to impart orders to digital computers

It is a program created by a computer to perform a task

It is a program which makes memorization of data possible

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Programming languages were introduced to facilitate the programmers' task in translating the computer "thoughts" which are expressed in binary code.

Why the machine language is considered a low-level language?

question 5 of 5

Beacause it only expressed few information

Because there was a low risk computer performance

Beacause it could be performed by only one type of computer with a specific CPU

What is a main characteristic of third-generation languages?

question 5 of 5

They are tied to the hardware of the computer

They require a deep knowledge of machine code to be used

They are designed to be independent of the type of machine on which they run

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CORRECT!

The machine language programs were made up of binary code and they consisted of two parts: an operation code and an operand. It was easily executed by a computer but was pretty much unintelligible to people and it was hardware dependent.

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CORRECT!

Third generation languages are high - level and machine independent, allowing programsto run on different computers with minimal changes.

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