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How do you program a computer?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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On one level you talk to a computer through input devices and output devices.

Examples of input devices are keyboards, mice, disk drives, cameras, microphones, and internet ports.

These inputs are sent to programs. Essentially instructions written by programmers telling the computer hardware what to do. The programs may gather input from from input devices and then output that data to output devices.

Examples of output devices are screens, speakers, and internet ports.

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You program a computer by storing the specific instructions you wish to execute in the sequence you wish to execute them. We typically achieve this using a high-level programming language. The language compiler converts the high-level instructions into machine-level instructions.

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Machine code (computer language) is not a language that can be "spoken" -- at least not easily. The language is entirely binary and is extremely difficult for humans to interpret let alone speak. To make it easier to communicate with the machine, we use high-level (abstract) computer languages which are much easier for us to understand. These languages are designed such that the computer can be easily programmed to convert or translate the high-level "source code" into its own native machine code -- the only language it "understands".

Converting machine code back into high-level code is impossible. Thus if we wish to change the machine code we need to go back to the original source code and modify it accordingly, then translate it into machine code using the language compiler. If we do not have access to the high-level source, we can reverse-engineer the machine code using a disassembler. This produces a low-level assembly-like source however all low-level abstractions and user-comments are stripped out (because they don't exist in the machine code). Converting a disassembly into a working assembly source takes skill and experience, but is highly laborious and prone to error.

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You can't speak programming languages. They are written codes that tell the computer what to do.

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To use a computer you type to talk to the computer and also you program a USB chip then you put it in the computer what to do, what to say.

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