Skip to content

Complete computer science languages section #131

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
thrialectics wants to merge 1 commit into
base: main
Choose a base branch
from
Open

Complete computer science languages section #131

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
14 changes: 14 additions & 0 deletions computer-science/languages/answers/marianne.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
What is a programming language?
A. A formal set of rules and syntax for writing instructions that a computer can execute.
What is a software framework?
A. A pre-built structure of code that provides common functionality and patterns, so you don't have to write everything from scratch. You build within its conventions and it handles a lot of the boilerplate.
What is the difference between a programming language vs a framework?
A. A language is the tool you write code in (JavaScript, Python). A framework is a collection of pre-written code in that language that gives you structure and shortcuts (React, Django). You can use a language without a framework, but not the reverse.
What is the difference between a procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming language?
A. Procedural organizes code as a sequence of instructions/procedures that execute top to bottom. Object-oriented organizes code around objects - bundles of data and methods that act on that data. Functional organizes code around pure functions and avoids changing state. Most modern languages support multiple paradigms.
What is the difference between a typed and non-typed language?
A. Typed languages require you to declare what kind of data a variable holds (number, string, etc.) and enforce it - catching type errors before or during runtime. Non-typed (dynamically typed) languages let variables hold any type and figure it out at runtime, which is flexible but can lead to unexpected bugs.

// Advanced //
What is the difference between a compiled and interpreted language? Is JS compiled or interpreted?
A. Compiled languages (C, Rust) are translated entirely into machine code before running - you get an executable file. Interpreted languages are read and executed line by line at runtime. JavaScript is technically interpreted, but modern JS engines (like V8) use just-in-time (JIT) compilation - they interpret first, then compile hot paths to machine code for speed.