Question

Computer programs are written in a high-level programming language; however, the human-readable version of a program is called

• A. cache
• B. instruction set
• C. source code
• D. word size
• E. None of these

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

source code

Computer programs are written in a high-level programming language; however, the human-readable version of a program is called source code.

The source code of a program is specially designed to facilitate the work of computer programmers, who specify the actions to be performed by a computer mostly by writing source code. The source code is often transformed by an assembler or compiler into binary machine code understood by the computer.