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What are Computer Languages?

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Computer Language - A Way to Talk to a Computer!

Humans need a language like Hindi, Telugu, English, or any other regional language or just a
body gesture to tell things, express feelings and to communicate with others. Have you ever
wondered how we talk to computers? Isn’t it mysterious and exciting?

Human Computer

A computer cannot understand human languages directly. So, we need a language to

communicate with a computer. We developed several languages as a method of computer
communications. Simply, the languages which are used to communicate with a computer are
called computer languages.

Definition of a Computer Language

A computer language is a group of instructions that are used to create computer programs.
This is the brief of computer languages. The main goal is to achieve human-computer
interaction.

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kids Interacting with Computer

Types of Computer Languages

Different types of Computer languages are given below.

Types of Computer Languages

1. Low Level Language: A Low-level computer language includes only 1’s and 0’s. This
language was used in first and second generation computers. A Low level language is
very easily understood by a computer but hard to understand for Humans.

Low level languages are designed to interact with computer hardware, which are
categorized into two types: Machine level language and Assembly level language.

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Computer Languages

2. Machine Language: As discussed above, Machine level language is a type of Low level
language. Machine language is considered to be the oldest computer language.
Machine language is developed by only using binary numbers i.e., 0 and 1. So, the
instructions or the statements in this language use a sequence of 0’s and 1’s.

Example of a statement in Machine code: 101010001011

Machine Language Code

3. Assembly Language: Assembly level language in computer programming has evolved

with the advancements in the machine language. Assembly language uses symbols,
which are popularly known as mnemonics in computer terminology to write the
instructions. So, comparatively writing a program in Assembly language is more
understandable to the Human than Machine Language.

Example of mnemonics in Assembly code: LOAD r2, a; CLR, MOV, MOVL, PUSH

Processing of Assembly Language

The Assembly language code will be converted into a Machine language code with the
help of an Assembler so that the computer can understand the binary converted
Assembly Language.

4. High Level Language: High Level computer languages are the advanced development
languages in the evolution of computer languages. These languages are designed to
make the programming easier and less error-free.

High level language uses words and commands along with symbols and numbers.
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The keywords used in High level languages are similar to English words and can be easily
understood by Humans when compared to a Low level language.

Types of programming languages in High level languages are:

C++

Java

Java Script

Python

C#

PHP

High Level Programming Languages List

The above given computer languages list are a few examples but there are many other
computer languages. Each of these languages have their own syntax (structured
statements) and keywords.

Example of a statement in High level language: Printf (“Hi”);

Difference Between High-Level and Low-Level Computer languages

Low Level Computer High Level Computer
S. No
Language Language

1. Low level languages are High level languages are

hard to understand by simple to understand by
humans as they use binary humans as they use English
numbers and easy to statements.

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understand by the
computer.

Low level languages are High level languages are

2.
programmer-friendly human friendly.

Program execution time

Program execution time is
3. (computational speed) is
longer.
less.

These are complex to

4. These are simple to maintain.
maintain.

Debugging process is hard. It is easy to debug in High level

5.
languages.

The programs in low level The programs in a high level

language are not portable language are portable, so we
6.
from one computer to can use them on any
another. computer.

Usage of low level

We use high level language in
7. language is less in today’s
today’s technologies.
technologies.

Low Level and High Level computer Languages

Important Terms Used in Computer Languages

Statement: A statement is telling a computer on how to do a desired action using words

or instructions.

Syntax: Syntax is the structured arrangement of statements.

Algorithm: Algorithm is a set of instructions written to solve a problem. It's the logical
thought process of a computer.

Binary numbers: Binary numbers are a way of expressing data. The numbers 1 and 0 are
called binary numbers. Computers can only understand binary language. Computers
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can be able to process millions of 1’s and 0’s.

Coding: Do you know “what is computer code”? Coding is the process of creating
computer instructions. Computer codes are also called Programs.

A simple C language code to print a statement is given below.

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Vedant Supercoders - Coding Classes for Kids");
// printf() displays the string inside quotation
return 0;
}

Debug: Debugging is the process of finding and removing errors from a code.

Assemblar: An Assembler is a computer program designed in such a way that it

converts mnemonics to 0’s and 1’s.

Summary
Learning about programming languages is extremely interesting as it gives a way for the
technology-driven society we are living in today. Programming languages have come a long
way from early machine codes to the human-readable code that now leads our favorite
technologies. Computer programming will continue to evolve in the same way that it has for
the past few years, keep learning the computer languages and it will be exciting to watch what
the future holds.
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A computer language is a method of communication that humans use to tell

computers how to execute specific tasks. Using these languages, we write programs
that do required tasks using a specific coding syntax.

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