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1 Computer
               Languages

Quick Glance                     High Level Languages
                                 Processing of computer Programs
     Low Level Languages
     Some Programming Languages

I am      Hi, Rizo,                Hello Gizo!
Gizo.  how are you?                 I am fine.
        Let us learn             Great! I always
                                 wondered how
         about the                the computer
         language                 understands
       of computer.              our language.

A programming language is a computer language that
is used by the programmers to develop applications,
scripts or other set of instructions for a computer to
execute. The programming languages are divided into
two categories:
Ÿ Low level languages
Ÿ High level languages
Let us now read about these languages in detail.

Low Level Languages

Low level computer languages are machine codes. Computer cannot understand instructions
given in English. It can only understand and execute instructions given in the form of machine

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