Lab 1.1 Self-Review Questions

In order to test your progress, you should be able to answer the following questions.

1)	What group of programming languages is easiest for the computer to understand? ______ The machine languages ______ The high-level languages ______ The assembly languages
2)	Programs created in the machine languages are which of the following? ______ Portable ______ Machine-specific
3)	Which of the following is true of interpreted programs? ______ All statements are translated and only then executed. ______ Each statement is translated and executed before the next statement.
4)	Before a program written in a high-level language can be executed, which of the following must take place? ______ A program must be interpreted. ______ A program must be compiled. ______ A program can be executed immediately.
5)	Which of the following is true of the interpreter? ______ It translates instructions written in assembly language into machine language. ______ It translates machine language into a high-level language. ______ It translates a high-level language into machine language.

Answers appear in Appendix A, Section 1.1 .