Match each translator to its job
Exercise and reference answers
- Matching pairs
- Left
- Assembler
- Right
- Turns assembly language into machine code
- Left
- Compiler
- Right
- Translates the whole program in one go
- Left
- Interpreter
- Right
- Translates and runs one line at a time
- Left
- Debugger
- Right
- Finds and helps correct errors in the code
- Instructions
- Tap a translator on the left, then tap what it does.
Explanation
_Source: syllabus CS XI Ch1 Computer System, 1.7.3 Programming Tools_