Overview of Programming and C++
Chandan Sengupta · 2012
This chapter discusses that computers can follow instructions only when they are presented as strings of 0s and 1s organized in specific ways called machine language. For many years at present, almost all programs have been written in programing languages. Such programs are then converted into machine language using programs designed to do the translation. There are two approaches to translating programs written in programming language into machine languages and two classes of programs, interpreters and compilers, for doing so. Interpreters execute the program as they read and translate the source code into machine language; therefore, it is often easier to develop and debug codes written in interpreted languages. C++ is a middle level programming language. All C++ compilers can compile programs written in C. C++ is also the basis of other modern programming languages such as Java and C#.