Classnotes | JAVA01 | RecentChanges | Preferences Regardless of whether or not your computer language is interpretive, compilable, or bytecode interpretive, all programs start their life as some sort of source code.
This isn't necessarily true. Programmers of classic systems (including video game systems such as the Atari 2600) had to work directly with the bits comprising their programs. Even some modern programmers work this way when they work on embedded systems or directly on chips (such as BIOS authors).
Source code looks different for each langauge: For example, the source code for the software that powers this website is in Perl and can be seen
[here]. Source code for Tux Typing, which is written in C, can be seen [here].
The book says that you can use any program that is capable of editting text to write your source code, and while this is true, I find that it is much simpler to write source code in a dedicated source code editor.
The one we will be using in this class is called "Jext" http://www.jext.org/ . Jext is nice because it offers us syntax highlighting.
