Can’t I just read the files to see the code?
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The files you download will contain something called machine code. This is code that the computer can be run, but it is not the code that was used to write the program. Programmers will typically write the program in a programming language and then will use something called a compiler to turn that code into something that the machine will run. There are tools that can turn machine code back into human readable code, but there’s usually a lot of helpful information that is missing, so the code can still be hard to understand and in some cases, the compiler will find ways of scrambling the machine code so that it still works, but makes the code look confusing and garbled when turned back into human readable code.
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