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How do computers read code?

Frame of Essence
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When you first learned to write code, you probably realized that computers don't really have any common sense. You need to tell a computer exactly what you want. But do you know about all the work the computer does to understand what you mean? 0:00 Intro - Where You've Seen Compilers 1:25 Source Code vs. Machine Code 3:38 Translating Source Code to Machine Code 9:05 How Compilers Make Things Easier 10:39 Outro - The Story of Automation Twitter:   / frameofessence   Facebook:   / frameofessence   YouTube:    / frameofessence   Video links: Crash Course Computer Science:    • Computer Science   Building the Bits and Qubits    • Building the Bits and Qubits   Tools used: gdb gcc Monospaced font: Menlo-Regular Images and other visuals: The IDE in the intro: Eclipse Python scripting: IDLE Source code distribution example: Apache httpd on GitHub Executable distribution examples: Audacity VLC media player Blender Punch cards: https:// …...more
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How do computers read code?
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2017Nov 16
When you first learned to write code, you probably realized that computers don't really have any common sense. You need to tell a computer exactly what you want. But do you know about all the work the computer does to understand what you mean? 0:00 Intro - Where You've Seen Compilers 1:25 Source Code vs. Machine Code 3:38 Translating Source Code to Machine Code 9:05 How Compilers Make Things Easier 10:39 Outro - The Story of Automation Twitter:   / frameofessence   Facebook:   / frameofessence   YouTube:    / frameofessence   Video links: Crash Course Computer Science:    • Computer Science   Building the Bits and Qubits    • Building the Bits and Qubits   Tools used: gdb gcc Monospaced font: Menlo-Regular Images and other visuals: The IDE in the intro: Eclipse Python scripting: IDLE Source code distribution example: Apache httpd on GitHub Executable distribution examples: Audacity VLC media player Blender Punch cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fo... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Early computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BR... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IB... Complex history of computer languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generat... Montage: Sublime Text IntelliJ IDEA https://www.haskell.org/ IntelliJ IDEA again... Print "Hello, world!" command: Python shell Music: YouTube audio library: Sunflower Incompetech: Call to Adventure If I Had a Chicken Premium Beat: Cutting Edge Technology Second Time Around Swoosh 1 sound effect came from here: http://soundbible.com/682-Swoosh-1.html ...and is under this license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

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Frame of Essence

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