What kind of programming language is used?
2007-01-12 22:56:53 · 6 answers · asked by compscience01 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Computer science is a general subject and all languages can be used -
they are generally divided into levels, for example, a high level language is further removed from machine code (the language that the computer understands) and closer to the English language.
There are also Procedural languages and Object Oriented Languages. Procedure languages 'proceed' through logic, one line at a time, until they reach the end, and include loops, 'IF' statements etc, while OO languages consist of blocks of code divided into Classes and Objects - these blocks of code can be easily interchanged, reused and adapted.
then there are other languages for more specific use, such as SQL for databases, JCL for batch processing, HTML for webpages, etc
2007-01-12 23:13:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you're doing high school computer science (programming class not a business class) you'll probably be programming in turing, basic, visual basic, java, or c++. If your in university than you'll probably be using c++ for Windows/Linux programming and assembly language or basic for microchip programming (some of the newer microcontrollers can also be programmed in c++). If you're wondering whether you should take a course, think about how much experience you have with the language they use. If you have no experience then make sure the course isn't teaching assembly language(or at least if they are than make sure you're willing to do a lot of work to accomplish small things, it's a great language to learn just takes awhile to learn it) or c or java. Almost any other language is pretty English-like in the way things are coded. I'm not saying that c, assembly or java are not English-like but some of the ideas are hard to grasp when you are starting out.
2007-01-12 23:18:43 · answer #2 · answered by Bridgeofstraws 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most Computer Science classes use C or C++.
2007-01-13 05:58:25 · answer #3 · answered by Richard H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
many languages and there are ones specific to what your doing like html for websites and c+ for general applications
2007-01-12 23:00:53 · answer #4 · answered by xx_muggles_xx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
c language. certainly !
2007-01-12 23:08:00 · answer #5 · answered by tiger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's no "kind of".........
all languges solve different purposes........
2007-01-13 00:18:34 · answer #6 · answered by AM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋