Monday, 10 September 2012

Algorithms and Comparing programming languages

We started looking at other types of programming languages and their advantages and disadvantages. Comparing languages is useful as we can see which ones will take a lot longer to code, which ones will be faster to run and which one will meet the personalized required solution to the "issue".

For example assembly language takes a very long time to create (disadvantage) however it runs extremely quickly (advantage).

Also we started looking at algorithms, an algorithm is a set of steps that describes how to solve a problem or how to perform a task. We did a couple of exercises to try and get us thinking in algorithms I.e. listing a task in the correct order of steps.

I have been continuing my use of codeacademy and am slowing working through the useful and important exercises.

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