The following links will be of more interest to teachers
Programming Languages
3.6. Further reading
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The TeachICT lesson on programming languages covers many of the topics in this chapter
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CS Online has a quick overview of this topic
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Wikipedia entries on programming language, high level language, and low level language
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Website including posters comparing programming languages by Samuel Williams
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A poster with full details of the file content in an executable file (the .exe format)
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David Bolton explains a Programming Language, Compiler, and the difference between Compilers and Interpreters.
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Computerworld article on the A to Z of programming languages
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What is Python? (compared with other languages)
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A very large poster showing a timeline of the development of programming languages
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99 bottles of beer song in hundreds of programming languages
Links of interest Teacher Note
