February 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1288 pages
39h 39m
English
book
Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition
by Julie Anderson, Herve J. Franceschi
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18 CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Programming and the Java Language
TABLE 1.6 Selected Unicode Characters and Their Decimal Equivalents
Unicode Character Decimal Value
NUL,the null character (a nonprintable character) 0
* 42
1 49
2 50
A 65
B 66
a 97
b 98
} 125
delete (a nonprintable character) 127
1.4 Programming Languages
1.4.1 High- and Low-Level Languages
Programming languages can be categorized into three types:
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machine language
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assembly language
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high-level language
In the early days of computing, programmers often used machine language
or assembly language. Machine language uses binary codes, or strings of 0s
and 1s, to execute the instruction set of the CPU ...
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