Programming code tells the computer to do something, but what makes the code actually mean anything to the computer?

Question

Programming code tells the computer to do something, but what makes the code actually mean anything to the computer?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

There is a process called compiling that turns people code into machine code. Machine code is very basic commands stored in binary. The computer interprets the 0’s and 1’s of binary as high and low voltages which act as inputs to an electrical circuit that operates the device.

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