Human-readable instructions in a programming language, to be transformed into machine instructions by a compiler, interpreter, assembler or other such system
Code written by a programmer in a high-level language and readable by people but not computers. Source code must be converted to object code or machine language before a computer can read or execute the program. the original form in which a computer program is written before it is changed into a form that a particular type of computer can read machine code
program instructions written as an ASCII text file; must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution