How do you define “if” for computers?

Question

I’m not a programmer, how do you get from binary 1s and 0s to “if x occurs complete y” How do you tell the computer to wait for a future input?

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Answer 1

Input bits A and B.

Very simply, send both through an AND gate, and it will produce a 1 only if both A and B are 1. You can then send the 1 through the circuitry to accomplish what you want in the case “A AND B” is true.