Programming Languages
01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 00100001 (Hello World!) Today I want to talk about programming languages. A computer understands the language of binary, this is called machine language and is represented by a series of bits of ones or zeros, signifying on or off (Harmon, 2020) . This low-level programming language instructs a computer to complete a particular set of tasks through long lines of those zeros and ones. This relegated developers to a small group that could write in this machine language. For development to grow and mature there needed to be something on the other end of the spectrum, a high-level programming language. A high-level programming language is defined as something that is more human-like, or representative of human language, and it requires fewer characters to direct the computer to do a particular task (Harmon, 2020) . Unlike the binary for Hello World! above at the start of this post the high
