[asdefghyk]

RE "....assembling programs by hand and punching hexcodes into a board......"

You translated you assembly language to machine language. ( Machine language is the only language a CPU can understand. )

[rahimnathwani]

Yes 'assembling' is exactly what GP did when they converted e.g. `LD A, B` into 0x78.

I wouldn't call it a 'translation'. It's encoding. (We don't think of converting between ASCII codes and symbols as translation.)