You might have heard the terms "assembly language" and "machine code" but what do they mean? Let's find out.

In software engineering, code transforms from human-readable high-level languages like Python or Java into machine-readable binary (machine code). An intermediate step, bytecode, bridges ...

An assembly language is a type of low-level programming language that is intended to communicate directly with a computer’s hardware.

This is why I’ve long argued that BASIC is the most consequential language in the history of computing. It’s a language for noobs, sure, but back then most everyone was a noob.

LLVM is a compiler framework for programmatically generating machine-native code. Developers use it to roll out new languages and enhance existing ones.

That’s because machine translation techniques rely on analysing the statistical properties of the same text written in two different languages – a Spanish-English dictionary, for example.

Here, Dylan Cuthbert of Q Games discusses the best language to learn programming, his history with BASIC and why he thinks old machine code is a perfect fit for children.

You might have heard the terms "assembly language" and "machine code" but what do they mean? Let's find out.