In Enabling Python in VS Code, we customized Visual Studio to include support for Python programming. In this post, we complete the installation of Python-supporting features and use our newly-customized, Python-enabled Visual Studio Code to write our very first Python program. The easiest way to complete the installation of all Read more…
If you have not yet installed VS Code on your computer, please refer to Installing Visual Studio Code and Installing VS Code on Windows 10 for details on how to do it for your operating system. Visual Studio does not support Python right out-of-the-box. Before you can write and execute Read more…
In the previous post, Installing Visual Studio Code, we talked about why having Visual Studio makes coding easier. Let’s now walk together through the steps of installing Visual Studio Code on Windows computer. The process is very similar for other platforms (macOS and Linux) and other versions of Windows. Click Read more…
To write even the simplest program that would run on your computer, you need to do : Write the actual program in some high-level programming language and store it in a file. This is the source code for your program. Compile the source code into a form that the operating Read more…
An interpreter is a program that executes other programs. When you try to execute a Python program, Python interpreter converts Python source code, one statement at a time, into the machine language and sends it to the operating system for execution by the CPU.
Machine language, or machine code, is a set of instructions that can be directly executed by the CPU. Each instruction has a very specific task (read, add, load, etc.) and is encoded in a binary code; i.e. a sequence 0’s and 1’s. Machine language is the only language directly understood by the computers. Any higher language first needs to be translated into the machine language before the CPU can execute it.