Introduction to Programming

The set of instructions given to computer to perform execution is known as a program and the process of writing the program is known as programming.

A person who develops the program is known as a programmer.

There are mainly two types of programming languages:

1. High level languages

2. Low level languages

The languages that are close to human language and far away from machine language are known as high level languages.e.g.,JAVA,C++,Fortran,etc.These languages are easily to understand for the users and difficult to understand for the computer.These languages are less closer to computer hardware than  machine languages.

The languages that are close to machine language and far away from human language is known as low level languages.e.g., Machine language, Assembly language(Assembly language is also called middle-level language),etc.These languages are difficult to understand for the users and easier to understand for the machine.These languages are closer to computer hardware than high level languages.