How does source code turn into PC games?

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I understand that game developers type thousands of lines of code for a single game such as any version of a game anyone of us plays every day. How could their source code stored in many files of the game can be executed through a single application and I can play the game itself? What is their code’s journey to our PCs?

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programming languages are compiled using a special program which translates code that humans read and write into machine code that computers can parse

sometimes you use an ‘interpreted programming language’ which means instead of using its own compiler because that is a lot of work to make — it translates from one language into another as an intermediate step, and then uses that languages compiler to translate into machine code!

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