Computer Science / Unit 4 CS 0181 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Machine Code
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The idea
Machine code is the sequence of binary digits a computer executes directly — the only computational model a computer can run, and hardware-dependent besides: each architecture speaks its own.
In practice
A grocery app, whatever language born in, arrives at the processor as patterns of bits.
Where people slip
Programs in every other form get translated into this one.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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