NAME: KIIRU RUTH WANJIKU UNIT: ICS 2108 ASSIGNMENT: ICS REG NO: SC283-1150/2012 COURSE: FINANCIAL ENGINEERING

LEVELS OF PROGRAMMING
There are three levels of programming this include; high level languages, low level languages, machine languages. High level languages They contain statements that are written in English words and symbols. Such languages are not designed specifically for any brand of computer. High level languages permit faster of large programs. Features Provides notation to describe problem solving strategies rather than organize data and instruction at machine level. Requires a compiler or interpreter. Low level languages Contain statements that are written using mnemonics to present operations and addresses that relate to their main memory and stage and stage registers of a computer. Features Uses symbolic names Wastes effort in coding a solution rather than solving a problem. It is difficult to build and maintain large programs. It requires assembler. Machine languages It is machine oriented languages in which instructions correspond or resemble a computers own native machine code consisting of strings of 1s and 0s stored as binary numbers. Features Very easy to make a mistake. Very hard to realize a mistake has been done.