Software Components of a Computer
Explore the software components of a computer system, including how instructions are represented and executed. Understand machine language, assembly language, assemblers, and the role of high-level programming languages in simplifying complex software development.
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Machine language
A computer can only process streams of ones and zeros because these streams are the computer’s language or the machine language. Like data, instructions also have to be stored as ones and zeros for the computer to decode and execute. However, it is not convenient for humans to remember all the binary instructions. Moreover, writing binary instructions would require the utmost diligence since changing even one bit can crash the ...
A human giving confusing instructions to a machine