Question

Chad, a computer programming student, just finished writing a computer program. In order to check whether the program performs the intended task, Chad must convert the source code to an executable program. Which tool would Chad need for this purpose?

Answer 1

He'd need to use a compiler. 

Answer 2

Answer:

A compiler

Explanation:

Basically the compiler is a program that processes commands written in a specific programming language and "translates" it into the machine language or "code" that the processor uses, converting the source code into an executable program.

When executed, the compiler first parses all language instructions syntactically one after the other and then, in one or more successive steps or “passages”, constructs the exit code, making sure that the instructions refer to other instructions are referenced correctly in the final code. Traditionally, the output of the compilation has been called an object code or sometimes an object module. The object is machine code that the processor can execute, one instruction at a time.