Programming Languages Overview

These flashcards cover key concepts related to programming languages, including different types of languages, programming paradigms, data structures, and specific programming constructs.

A mnemonic system for representing machine instructions, allowing programmers to use descriptive names for memory locations.

Assembly language

A program that converts high-level language code to machine code.

Compiler

A programming paradigm based on the concept of 'objects', which contain data and procedures.

Object-oriented programming

A specific way of organizing and storing data in a computer so that it can be accessed and modified efficiently.

Data structure

A statement that determines the order in which other statements are executed in a program.

Control statement

A principle of object-oriented programming that restricts access to certain components of an object.

Encapsulation

A mechanism in object-oriented programming that allows one class to inherit properties and behavior from another class.

Inheritance

The process of combining two or more statements to produce a new statement that logically follows from the originals.

Resolution

A special method used to initialize a new object when it is created.

Constructor

A common data structure that stores a collection of elements, each identified by an array index.

Array