PCAP: Programming Essentials in Python

language - Answer means/tool for expressing and recoding thoughts computer's language? - Answer machine language natural languages - Answer languages where new words are created every day and old words disappear 4 aspects of a language - Answer alphabet, lexis, syntax, semantics alphabet - Answer set of symbols used to build words of a certain language lexis - Answer aka a dictionary or a set of words the language offers its users syntax - Answer a set of rules (formal or informal) used to determine if a certain string of words forms a valid sentence semantics - Answer a set of rules determine if a certain phrase makes sense (I ate a donut vs a donut ate me) Instruction List (IL) - Answer a complete set of known commands; the alphabet of the machine language (they vary by size and what they contain) source code - Answer a program written in a high-level programming language (in contrast to the machine code executed by computers) source file - Answer contains source code