1.2 How a Computer Reads the Code We write

The Source Code we enter in the Computer is read by an Compiler and first converted into Assembly Code and then the Assembly code is converted to Binary Instructions which the Computer’s Hardware could follow.

You may find about how this happens in an electronic course.

Now, How do we write our own code and Compile it?

For this you’ll need a Compiler on your PC, but that might not be very user-friendly, so we suggest that you install a full IDE on your PC, you may download DevC++ (https://sourceforge.net/projects/orwelldevcpp/) or any other IDE on your Computer.

DevC++ (or literally any other IDE) has a very easy user-interface, You may open a new file/project name it whatever you want but make sure that you end it with .c extension for C source codes and .cpp for C++ source codes.

Exercise

Try Executing the Program we wrote in the previous section in DevC++.