Programming code tells the computer to do something, but what makes the code actually mean anything to the computer?
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You can think of the computer as consisting of TWO parts. The Central Processing Unit and the Memory. Programmers put their code into the memory and you can look at it like a list that goes top to bottom. The CPU then gets fed that information and writes new stuff to that memory. How does that happen? With the pins! When you look at your CPU it has all these connections to the surface it gets placed on and now all you have to do is send some electricity to those pins. The CPU is constructed in such a way that if you send electricity to certain pins they will then redirect that electricity to other pins which you then can send back to the memory.
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