Problems
Answer
State what is meant by an embedded system.
Any 1 from:
- Computer system that is designed to a perform dedicated/single function
- Computer system that contains a microprocessor (and)/dedicated hardware
- Computer system that is built into a larger system
Give the name of the translator that will be used for the program.
Assembler
Give one benefit to the programmer of using assembly language to write the program.
Any 1 from:
- More control over manipulating the hardware
- Faster execution for testing than a high-level language
- They can use machine specific instructions
The programmer uses an integrated development environment (IDE) to write the program. A built-in translator to convert the program into machine code is one way that the IDE helps the computer programmer. Describe three other ways the IDE can help the programmer.
Any 6 from:
- Code editor …
- … that allows the user to enter and amend code in their program
- Run-time environment
- … that allows a program to be run and see the outputs of their program
- Error-diagnostic
- … to show the programmer where there are errors in the program
- Auto-completion
- … to give the user options/suggestions of key commands to select
- Auto-correction
- … to correct a command that has a minor misspelling
- Prettyprint
- … changes the colour of key commands do they are easy to identify
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A computer programmer uses assembly language to create a computer program for an embedded system in a washing machine.
State what is meant by an embedded system.
Give the name of the translator that will be used for the program.
Give one benefit to the programmer of using assembly language to write the program.
The programmer uses an integrated development environment (IDE) to write the program. A built-in translator to convert the program into machine code is one way that the IDE helps the computer programmer. Describe three other ways the IDE can help the programmer.