In software engineering, code transforms from human-readable high-level languages like Python or Java into machine-readable binary (machine code). An intermediate step, bytecode, bridges ...

Assembly, or asm, features "a very strong (generally one-to-one) correspondence between the language and the architecture's machine code instructions," according to Wikipedia.

These conversion programs turn the programmer's source code, which is what the programmer writes, into machine language (machine code). See assembly language, compiler and interpreter.

Machine code is the instructions that a processor understands and can act upon. Writing in machine code allows programmers to do things that might not be possible in a high-level language. High ...