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GCSE Computer Science · key term
The program instructions written by a programmer in a programming language, before translation.
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The human-readable program instructions written by a programmer.
Revise: Software Licences: Open Source and ProprietarySource code is the human-readable program instructions written by a programmer. Having access to it allows someone with suitable programming skills to inspect how a program works and make changes to its behaviour.
Define open source using both access to source code and permission to modify it. Saying only that it is free is not enough.
Say that a translator converts source code into machine code, not simply that it ‘makes the code work’.
Link each benefit to the situation. For distributing a finished game, an executable lets users run it without receiving the source code or compiler.
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