I’m not very technical so apologies if I use terms interchangeably that don’t make sense but I will try to explain. What I understand and put very basic is: we write code, it then gets “converted” so that the computer understands it. This is represented by 1’s and 0’s that trigger current in the hardware that gets stored in memory, lights a LED, etc. through (I think it’s called) logic gates.
That’s my way of understanding it. What I don’t understand is how the current is triggered? What causes that interaction?
For example, when I click save in a document. How does that trigger it to be saved in the hardware. Is it that, when I physically click on my mouse. That physical interaction of clicking sends a current and the computer recognises that the proportion of the pixels on the screen represents saving the document, which then triggers it to send that current to the logic gates?
Edit: Thank you for all your answers.
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Computer’s are mostly made of transistors. A transistor is an electronic switch. With a low voltage input, it prevents current from flowing from the input to the output. With a high voltage input, it allows current to flow with low resistance from the input to the output.
Clicking your mouse it not hardware, it’s an operating system program. As you move the mouse (the actual gizmo) from side to side, OS software moves a pointer on the screen. When you click the mouse, the OS software looks at where the mouse is located, and finds a “mousable region” under that point. If then calls the program attached to that mousable region.
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