When you code something, how does the computer know what it means? Sure it might match what you wrote to correspond to the language the code is written in, but how does that translate to the ones and zeros and so on. Can someone walk me through the ENTIRE process, everything online isn't too clear.
How the fuck do computers work?
Carson Price
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Kayden Cruz
should go through nand2tetris or some other computer architecture course
David Evans
It doesn't, that's the magic. Every letter, number, symbol you type is absolutely meaningless to a computer.
Anthony Perez
Ian Garcia
What if you write in machine code
Colton Sanchez
That's also meaningless, this gets turned into micro-ops which the silicone can finally optimize to be used to alter on and off states in the transistors. In the end the computer will only ever see 1s and 0s.
Jason Ortiz
Code by petzold is also a good intro and noob friendly.
Samuel Russell
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David Nelson
Once you get to machine code, each symbol is converted into 1s and 0s, after which the specific patterns route the data through the computer