Now that we know a little bit about where computers come from, how they communicate, and how they store data, we can learn how computers work. Chapter 1 discussed the difference between a machine language, which allows a programmer to give a computer instructions that it directly understands, and a programming language, which is a more humanlike way of programming the computer. Programming languages, since they are not native to a computer, eventually have to be translated into machine language instructions
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