BCS 1013 PSCP (Dis): An Overview of Computers and Programming Languages

Exercise : An Overview of Computers and Programming Languages

1. Name two input devices.
2. Name two output devices.
3. What are the differences between machine languages and high-level languages?
4. Why do you need a compiler?
5. Why would you prefer to write a program in a high-level language rather than a
machine language?
6. What are the advantages of problem analysis and algorithm design over directly writing a
program in a high-level language?
7. Design an algorithm to find the  average of four test scores.