
Episode 96: How Computers Work Part VI - High Level Programming and Software
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How Computers Work
i'll use the example of this little space invader's game that i just discussed. In order to run that programme, we need to compile it into a machine code which the actual processor can understand and execute. This machine language programm is just a series of zeros and ones, each of which corresponds to a single machine instruction. Ok. So that brings us to the conclusion of all the material i wanted to cover in this series of six episodes on how computers work. To finish out now, i just want to go over and sort of integrate and put together what we've talked about. And essentially just talk through all the key concepts, or at least some of the major concepts that
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