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Question 3

A technology company is developing two different software systems:

  1. A smart security alarm sensor (an embedded system with a processor that has very limited RAM and storage).
  2. A retail inventory management portal (a desktop database application to be used by office staff).

Discuss the features of high-level and low-level programming languages, and explain why each would be more suitable for developing one of these applications.

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Programming languages Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Computer Science
  3. /Programming languages

41 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Computer Science Programming languages, covering Low-level and high-level languages and Interpreters versus compilers. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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