ITPEC IP October 2021 Question 6
ITPEC IP October 2021 — Question 6 of 100
Human-readable programming instructions are source code. A programmer writes source code in a programming language, after which a compiler or interpreter translates or executes it in a form the computer can process.
Answer (b)
Why not others:
- a PIN is a personal authentication number
- binary code is represented using binary digits and may refer to machine-level data
- a character code maps characters to numeric values, such as ASCII or Unicode encodings
Key rule: The original program text written by a developer is source code.
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