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Foil 6 What is a Computing Language -I ?

From Additional Java Material incl-Teaching at Grade 5-12 Level Living SchoolBook Teaching Java -- 22 August 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
A Computing Language instructs a computer what to do
A Computer manipulates information taking it from somewhere and putting it somewhere else
A language like Fortran only supports directly very basic information
  • Numbers , Words and Collections(Arrays) of them
It is more powerful to define bigger units of information
  • An HTML document
  • An Image
  • A date etc.
These are examples of "objects" and languages such as C++ Java JavaScript allow you to directly manipulate such objects

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