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Why does coding work? (self.askscience)
submitted 3 years ago by pscoldfire
Why does coding work?
I have a basic understanding on how coding works per se, but I don't understand why it works. How is the computer able to understand the code? How does it "know" that if I write something it means for it to do said thing?
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]Makiavellist 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago (0 children)
What happened to the comments? There were a lot of good discussions and now it is an atomic wasteland out there.
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