By this I mean, when you write code, what exactly gives that the power to do anything is it more code? 0’s and 1’s? more so, what gives that thing the power to do anything? At some stage I can only deduce what must just be magic making it work because it’ll boil down to something metal and plastic ‘talking to’ an electric current, which doesn’t make sense at all
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Start here: https://youtu.be/O5nskjZ_GoI?si=B_qPnfp9imvvbz2i
This is the PBS Crash Course on computer science. It will take you from nothing to computer literate. The first five or so episodes will focus on what you’re asking: how a computer does anything useful.
Remember, your sitting atop decades of advances specifically designed to make using one of the most complicated devices ever invented both simple and intuitive. Millions of Hours of very hard work went in abstracting this into something you could understand.
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