High-level programming language

Hey kiddo! Do you know what a computer program is? It's a set of instructions for a computer to do something. Just like you need to speak in a language that someone understands, computers need a language to understand what you want them to do.

There are different types of languages that people use to write computer programs. A high-level programming language is one of them. It's like a more advanced way of talking to a computer compared to other languages.

When people use a high-level language like Python or Java, they write code that looks more like human language than machine language. You would use a high-level language to create a program for a specific purpose, like making a video game or analyzing data.

But, even though high-level languages are easier to read and write than machine language, they still need a translation step. A program called a compiler takes the code from the high-level language and translates it into machine code that the computer can understand.

So, in summary, high-level programming languages are a way for people to talk to computers in a way that is easier to understand, but still need to be translated into machine language for the computer to execute the instructions. Cool, huh?