ITPEC IP October 2019 Question 5
ITPEC IP October 2019 — Question 5 of 100
Commands written by a programmer in a programming language are source code. Source code is the human-readable representation that a compiler or interpreter translates or executes to produce the required computer behavior.
Answer (b)
Why not others:
- a PIN code is a personal authentication secret
- binary code represents values or machine instructions using bits but is not the general name for programmer-written language statements
- a character code maps characters to numeric values, such as Unicode
Key rule: Source code expresses a program in a programming language; machine code is the processor-executable representation produced from it.
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