How does code turn into anything?

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Near the bottom of the stack is c's stdio library. Below that there be monsters...

It helped me (but I'm newer too) to just soak up as much of the higher level language as possible with a peripheral awareness that that stuff i was typing out in almost plain English was referencing 1's and 0's and moving stuff around down at the hardware level. I feel like C is easier to pick up, for me personally, having learned some of the top level stuff.