Lecture 1 - Introduction to Programming
Program is a sequence of instructions which is given to the computer to perform some specific task. There are two categories of languages High Level Language Low Level Language High level languages are close to human languages. These languages have English like words in them. For example if, else, switch, for, while, do-while, printf, scanf, main, long, double etc For example: C, C++, Java, Basic, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual C#, PHP, FORTRAN, and COBOL etc. Features of High level languages Easy to Learn Easy to Modify Easy to Debug Platform Independent Shorter programs as compared to Low level languages Less production cost Low level languages are NOT close to human language these languages have either symbols or binary numbers. Machine Dependent Larger programs High production cost Difficult to Debug Comparison of different languages C Language Assem...