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Test Your Knowledge 21 st Century #Technology Literacy
Skills
Write the names of any four commonly used programming languages.

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We use various types of applications to perform different operations, such as drawing, writing
documents and creating presentations. These applications are also known as computer programs.
A computer program can be defined as a collection of instructions to perform a specific task.
The process of writing a program is called program coding or programming.
We use different languages, such as Hindi, English, Gujarati, etc., to communicate with each other.
But, a computer cannot understand these languages. So, we need a special language through which
we can communicate with the computer. The language that a computer can understand is known as a
programming language. All the programs running on a computer are written by using different types
of programming languages. There are mainly two types of programming languages: procedural and
object-oriented. A procedural language is a programming language that uses small functions or
procedures to perform operations in a sequential manner. Some of the procedural programming
languages are C, BASIC, and FORTRAN. On the other hand, an object-oriented language is a
programming language that uses objects and classes in a non-sequential manner. Some of the
object-oriented programming languages are C++, Java, and Python. In this chapter, we will learn
more about Java, which is a popular object-oriented programming language.

INTRODUCING JAVA

Java is an object-oriented and high-level programming language. It was developed by James Gosling
at Sun Microsystems in 1995. It was acquired by Oracle in 2010. Initially, Java was used to develop
Internet-based applications, also known as Applets.

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