what is compiling please?

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what is compiling please?

Answer 1

To put together (documents, selections, or other materials) in one book or work.



To make (a book, writing, or the like) of materials from various sources: to compile an anthology of plays; to compile a graph showing changes in profit..

To gather together: to compile data.



Computers. to translate (a computer program) from a high-level language into another language, usually machine language, using a compiler.

Answer 2

Compiling is the process of converting your code to machine code, which is read by the computer's processor and executed. Machine code is binary, just a lot of 0's and 1's. In order to compile a program, you need a program known as a "compiler," which will perform the above actions automatically. Some examples of compilers are the Gnu Compiler Collection (GCC), a C compiler, and Free Pascal, a compiler for the Pascal programming language.



PLEASE NOTE: Languages such as Python are known as "interpreted languages" and do not need to be compiled. Instead, another program simply interprets your commands and feeds them to the machine one by one while the program is running. Therefore, interpreted languages are often slower than compiled languages.

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler



That's a good starting place for reading about compilers. to translate (a computer program) from a high-level language into another language, usually machine language, using a compiler.



It basically makes the code you've written, be usable for execution.

Answer 4

processing of statements written in a particular programming language and turninghem into machine language or "code" that a computer's processor uses.