What makes computer code ‘work’

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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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All code does is transform information into a series of 1s and 0s. The hardware is just electric current that is either on (1) or off (0). Some hardware can remember whether it was last set to a 1 or 0.  That’s the foundation of all computing

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