Introduction to Programming Languages

Overview

To write a computer program, we need a programming language. However, we don’t have just one or two to pick from; thousands of different languages are available at our disposal. In this chapter, we’ll talk about programming languages, why there are so many languages available, how all of these languages are related, and how a computer can understand the code we write. Toward the end, we’ll talk about the grammar of a programming language, which is also known as its syntax.