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Learning to Program
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Learning to Program

by Steven Foote
November 2014
Beginner
336 pages
10h 58m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Compiled vs. Interpreted Languages: When Does the Source Code Become Binary?

Some languages require all your code to be compiled before any of the code can be executed; other languages interpret each instruction at the time the code is executed. In fact, compiled languages are generally compiled by a programmer on the programmer’s computer; when the programmer shares (or sells) the software, he or she shares the compiled 0’s and 1’s, not the source code.

When you are writing a program in a compiled language, you must compile the program after each change to the source code before running the program again. Working with a compiled language can be nice because many bugs are found when source code is compiled. These bugs, called compilation errors, ...

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