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by Dallas P: How does a coMputer know how to read computer language?

I figure a computer has to be programmer to be able to do anything at all so wouldn’t it have to be programmed toread computer language? And then wouldn’t it have to be programmed to be programmed to read computer language? Where does it all start to make a computer able to do anything so that all that metal and circuitry isn’t just metal and circuitry?

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Answer by Zezombia

Computers read .exe language, anything you do it somehow converted to an exe at some point.

Even on your browser, with PHP and HTML etc, your browser reads the code, converts it to imagery (the browser does, not your computer), and then expresses it on the browser window (which is a Windows exe form).

Answer by MB

Each memory location in the computer knows just two states, on or off.So all the computer knows is 1 (on) or 0 (off). The programming language translates the 1s and 0s from binary to machine language to the higher language like C or C++. It knows from which memory location the bits (the 1 or 0) come from and translate that into commands. Basically a computer just adds and subtracts and programmers use those functions to manipulate the data they put in and take out. That’s the very basic of it.

Answer by tbshmkr

C++

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Tutorials online:

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

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Code::Blocks == open source free C/C++ IDE

http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/5

codeblocks-8.02mingw-setup.exe

Answer by Joe M

TTL transistor to transistor logic?

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