Programming Fundamentals
-Introduction to Programming-
Introduction to Programming Languages
• Program: A program is a set of instructions given to a computer to
perform a specific operation.
• The computer only understands binary language/low-level language.
• The programs we are going to write are in a high-level language
which is almost similar to human language.
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Why learn programming?
• Can boost problem solving and logic skills
• Teaches us combine technical skills and creativity.
• Improves interpersonal skills.
• Can lead to software development jobs
• Helps us understand how software works
Software= program+ documentation (source code/ requirement
specification documentation/ software design document, test plans, user
manuals etc)
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Types of Programming Languages
There are two types of programming languages, which can be
categorized into the following ways:
1. Low level language
2. High level language
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Low level languages
a) Machine Language
• Consists of strings (combination of characters) of binary numbers (i.e. 0s and 1s)
• 011000111 1111000110
• It is the only one language, the processor directly understands.
b) Assembly Language
• Programmer requires detailed knowledge of hardware specification.
• This language uses mnemonics code in place of 0s and 1s.
• ADD,MUL, MOV, POP/PUSH.. (comp ogra, microprocessor)
• The program is converted into machine code by assembler. The resulting program
is referred to as an object code.
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High level language
• Instructions of this language closely resembles to human language.
• Uses mathematical notations to perform the task.
• Easier to learn.
• Requires less time to write and is easier to maintain the errors.
• Converted into machine language by one of the two different
languages translator programs; interpreter or compiler.
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High level language
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a) Procedural-Oriented language
• Designed to express the logic and the procedure of a problem to be
solved.
• This programing executes a series of statements that lead to an
outcome.
• Usually, it uses heavy loops, multiple variables and some other
elements, that is also a major difference between procedural and
functional languages.
• Includes languages such as Pascal, COBOL, C, FORTAN, etc.
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b) Functional Programming
• Designed on the concept of mathematical functions that use
conditional expressions and recursion to perform computation.
• Does not support flow controls like loop statements and conditional
statements like If-Else and Switch Statements. They directly use the
functions and functional calls.
• Uses Immutable data.
• Avoids the concept of shared state -does not depend on a local or
global state, value output depends only on the arguments passed to the
function.
• Example: Scala, Haskell
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c) Object-Oriented Programming
• Refers to languages that uses objects in programming.
• Object-oriented programming aims to implement real-world entities like inheritance,
hiding, polymorphism etc. in programming.
• Binds together the data and the functions that operate on them so that no other part of the
code can access this data except that function.
• Example: Java, C++, Python
Batch (class)
B2 b5 b7 a3 (objects)
Properties of a class (class id, no. of students)
Student
Rekha jaya meena (objects)
Properties (roll no, marks.. )
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d) Scripting Programming
• Supports scripts which are programs written exclusively for a special
runtime environment to automate the execution of a specific
action/function.
• Scripting languages are written in one language and interpreted within
another program, for instance, JavaScript has to be incorporated within
HTML which will then be interpreted by the Internet browser.
• Example: JavaScript, VBScript
• <script> starting bracket
• </script> closing bracket
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