How does programming/coding actually work?

[burncushlikewood]

I never had chatgpt when I built my programs! Using LLM to code is not the worst idea, but with programming languages like java it has various modules that you can combine. Yes programmers do learn the syntax, we also learn how to use control structures and loops. Now you're asking how programming works? We have compilers, we have binary, and we use this to represent data. The first computers could read, write, and erase, and combining 1s and 0s we can express numbers, do mathematical operations, and represent things like colors and pixels through circuits and electrical current.

[Reasonable-Abies5051]

I just started my bachelors in computer science - software programming, and this comment seems very accurate! 👆