MIS 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Integrated Development Environment, Source Code

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 304
• Professor: khoo

Document Summary

Programmer (software developer): a person with the training and skills necessary to design, create, and test computer programs. Hardware: all the physical components of which a computer is made. Syntax: set of rules that must be strictly followed when writing a program. Statements: individual instructions that you use to write a program in a high-level programming language. Compiler: program that translates a high-level program into a separate machine language program. Interpreter: translates and executes instructions in a high-level language program. Code (source code): statements that a programmer writes in a high-level language. Syntax error: a mistake such as a misspelled key word, a missing punctuation character, or the incorrect use of an operator. Python interpreter: program that can read python programming statements and execute them. Interactive mode (python shell): interpreter waits for you to type python statements on the keyboard. Script mode: interpreter reads the contents of a file that contains python statements.