How was the first computer programmed? With what? How does it know 1 means yes and 0 means no?
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Heyyyyyo.
Whenever anyone asks this, I direct them to Harvard’s brilliant online CS50 YouTube channel.
The professor is crazy good at explaining it. He does the same series of lectures every year and throws them up on Youtube and they’re all fantastic.
[https://www.youtube.com/live/2WtPyqwTLKM?si=A6E2Vkh1vIKdq1zb&t=1494](https://www.youtube.com/live/2WtPyqwTLKM?si=A6E2Vkh1vIKdq1zb&t=1494)
Anything can be made into a computer, once you understand unary, and binary, and different base methods…
Like:
[https://youtu.be/IxXaizglscw?si=ztZ40vAiCO7zriC0](https://youtu.be/IxXaizglscw?si=ztZ40vAiCO7zriC0)
THEN.
Once you understand logic gates………….
You can try playing the games Shapez and Shapez 2 (which came out last month and I’ve been horribly addicted to).
And you can literally build a computer IN THE GAME to solve the game.
For example:
[https://youtu.be/Pn4OPFuUgfs?si=xA_fy5a2fuW_Bkl1](https://youtu.be/Pn4OPFuUgfs?si=xA_fy5a2fuW_Bkl1)
There’s also the Minecraft computer that someone spend an unfathomable amount of time creating…
[https://youtu.be/dV_lf1kyV9M?si=fx7Qi0EBopaTZYKd](https://youtu.be/dV_lf1kyV9M?si=fx7Qi0EBopaTZYKd)
Then you can create Minecraft within Minecraft… If you wanted to… For some reason…
[https://youtu.be/-BP7DhHTU-I?si=sOJDeijoS9rvXipz](https://youtu.be/-BP7DhHTU-I?si=sOJDeijoS9rvXipz)
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