108. AQA A Level SLR15 Source code, bytecode & object (executable) code


About this video

AQA Specification Reference
AS Level 3.6.2.1
A Level 4.6.3.1

We delve a little deeper in this video into program translation and explain why an intermediate language such as bytecode is produced as the final output of some compilers and we explain how it is subsequently used.

Key questions:

- What is an intermediate language?
- What is bytecode?

00:00 Source code, bytecode and object (executable) code
00:12 Intro
00:17 Intermediate code and bytecode
02:04 Key questions
02:12 Outro

Last updated: 04.09.25