Eli5: How did people teach the first code to machines before code existed?

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Eli5: How did people teach the first code to machines before code existed?

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Assembly

Assembly can translate directly to signals received by the chip.

This can be as simple as flipping switches for the values. When the signals match a certain value, the chip performs a certain function.

What the chip does exactly depends on the instruction set architecture and the implementation.

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