How to Create Programs?

Get a basic introduction to earlier generation programming languages and a small comparison of syntax complexity.

Closest to the hardware: Assembly language

The only programming language directly understandable by a computer is machine language. A more human-readable representation of machine language is assembly language. It is a set of very primitive operations linked to a specific family of processors (the computer’s “brain”) and manipulating its memory.

Here’s an example of a basic program written in assembly language. It displays "Hello" to the user.

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