Describe the steps that transform a program written in a high-level language such as C into a representation that is directly executed by a computer processo

First, you would want to translate from C-language Program (in text format) into the assembly language Program (still in text format, but in the corresponding architecture of the computer where the program will be run). The software tool you will use for this step is Compiler.

Then you would translate from the assembly language program (text format) into Machine Code Program (in binary format). The software tool used for this step would be Assembler.