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Third Generation Fourth Generation
Integrated Circuits IBM 360 Microprocessors Desktops
Fifth Generation
Artificial Drone in Delivery Supercomputers Robots in Surgery Robots playing
Intelligence football
Try This Critical Thinking
Identify the devices shown in the images given below and write their names in the spaces provided.
(a) ________________ (b) ________________
(c) ________________ (d) ________________
(e) ________________ (f) ________________
COMPUTER LANGUAGES User writes
program
A computer language is a means of communication to exchange
information between a user and a computer. Computer
interprets
A computer follows a set of instructions or programs written in and executes
a computer language to perform a specific job. Each computer program
language has its own specific rules, called syntax. Computer displays
The various generations of programming languages are: result of program
First-Generation Programming Language (Machine Language)
The Machine language is the first-generation programming
language. It is the only programming language that the computer
can understand directly. It is expressed in the form of binary
digits - 0 and 1.
Machine language programs are machine-dependent. The programs
written on one computer may not run on another computer.
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