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Coding with AI For Dummies
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Coding with AI For Dummies

by Chris Minnick
March 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
7h 43m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 8

Translating and Optimizing Code

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Translating your code with AI

Bullet Verifying translated code

Bullet Exploring code optimization

Bullet Using AI to optimize your code

Bullet Improving the performance of your code

After you have a working program, you might want to translate it to another programming language or improve the code's quality or efficiency. Both tasks should be done carefully, if at all.

Code translation and code optimization are related topics because both seek to change the code in some way without changing its functionality and purpose. In this chapter, you discover how AI tools can help.

Translating Code to Other Languages

The most common form of code translation is compilation, in which native code written by programmers is translated into machine code that can be run by the CPU. Compilation is a necessary and reliable process.

Translating code from one high-level programming language to another, however, is a process fraught with danger. If you do it for the wrong ...

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