1.2.4 Types Of Programming Language

A style or way of programming

Any high level language that groups sets of instructions into subroutines or functions

A language which is related to the computers own machine code

Set of all possible instructions made available by the hardware design of a particular processor

A language which is close to machine code

A language designed to help a programmer express a computer in a way that reflects the problem being solved

Was designed to model a very basic Von Neumann computer

Uses data in the address field as a constant that is needed by the program

Uses data in the address field without alteration

Uses the address field to hold the address of a location that contains the required address

Modifies the address in the address field by the addition of a number held in the index register before the address is used

Looking at systems by classifying them into real world objects

Gathers together data (attributes) about an entity along with procedures and functions that act upon these data into one package called a class

A definition of an object

An instance of a class

A procedure or function residing in a class

When classes bundle together their attributes and methods

Where a new class inherits the methods and attributes of another

The class being inherited

The class that inherits another

Where a single method takes different forms depending on the class its using