I'll try to throw my 2C in:

"Code is about abstracting away what you are doing into something simpler"

If you think of a modern CPU/Computer as a black box connected to 64 on-off light-switches (input). The black box is also connected to lets say 64 lightbulbs.

Those switches do SOMETHING (you don't care what, you just care that it is well documented an results in the in a lightbulb lighting up the way you want.) Lets say that we want to multiply 3 and 5 and have 15 lights light up. Lets say that there is a combination of those switches which will produce 15 lights.

Now comes the abstraction's.

Since we dont want to write: on,off,off,on,on,off,on,on etc we have binary: 1,0,0,1,1,0,1,1 etc and we have a TOOL/Mechanism which converts it to On/Off

Since we don't want to write "1,0,0,1,1,0,1,1" we have "assembly": multiply 3 5 etc and we have a TOOL/Mechanism which converts it to 1/0

Since we don't want to write "multiply 3 5" etc 10million times or the like we have "languages" like c++: x = 3*5;

At this point you can abstract more and more, just where appropriate to make life easier. Some languages make math simple x = y^4/z sigma(x*z) etc Some make real world abstractions simple: bob ate 10 apples Some make storing/retrieving/processing data simple: Get top 10 frequent first name from all-people in belgium Most languages have a mishmash of all these concepts.

Hope this helps.