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What is coding?



Hybrid Translators

A hybrid translator is a combination of the Interpreter and Compiler. A popular hybrid programming language is Java. Java first compiles your source code to an intermediate format known as the Bytecode.

The Bytecode is then interpreted and executed by a runtime engine also known as a Virtual machine. This enables the hybrid translators to run the bytecode on various operating systems.

Assemblers

There’s the Assembler as well for translating low-level Assembly language to binary.

For this series, we will only focus on the High level languages.

A good way to look at Translators is to see them as a program in themselves. You need to download or get them, install them on your computer system and understand their basic workings.

An Often Asked Question

Here’s a question beginners usually ask.

What language do I learn first?

There are hundreds of programming languages. They are ranked by popularity, community, long term support, pedagogy, business use. They can also be ranked by technicality, such as whether they are functional, imperative, static, strong, or loosely typed.

Some languages are more pedagogical than others. Some languages are for educational purposes and not for business use. There are languages written, for example, for kids to learn how to code.

There are very powerful languages that are easy to setup and learn. Python is one such programming language. I usually recommend it to beginners.

If you are interested in exploring more on your options for “first language,” here’ssome good research by Philip Guo.

When you want to learn a new language, you know now that you would need that language translator. This is a program you install and setup on your computer system.

I recommend that you start learning how to use a CLI (Command Line Interface). The CLI is the terminal or shell. Think of the terminal as an alternative to a GUI (Graphical User Interface).

In GUIs, you interact with the computer through the mouse pointer. You also depend on visual renditions of directories, and about everything you do.

But, when using a CLI you interact with the computer using commands which you type at the prompt or a blinking cursor...


                   


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