Programming languages translate human instructions into machine code from "summary" of Code by Charles Petzold
When you sit down at your computer and start typing on the keyboard, what you are doing is providing the computer with a set of instructions in a language that it can understand. This language is known as a programming language. However, computers themselves do not think or communicate in the same way that humans do. Instead, they operate using a system of electrical signals that represent different states of being. These signals are then translated by the computer's hardware into a series of 1s and 0s that can be interpreted as machine code. Programming languages serve as an intermediary between human instructions and machine code. They allow programmers to write code in a way that is logical and understandable to them, while also providing a means for the computer to interpret and execute those instructions. Each programming langu...
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