Hi all,
I'm going to dip my toes in to coding. I'm checking out Code Academy as a start, which begins with HTML as a nice simple introduction. I'm hoping I can use these basic coding principles on some of my old machines.
But as more of a curiosity than anything I want to seriously get into, I have to ask, and this may be a real dense question and I apologise for it. I understand that languages like HTML, C and Java and so on are useful as they turn human-intelligible text into binary values that computers can understand and execute.
But what *is* it about all those ones and zeroes that, say, can culminate in something non-numerical like a spaceship on Defender or a drop-down menu on a Mac?
I can picture, for example, those values being applied to things like numerical calculation, as it's numbers. But how does, say, 4K of numbers magically produce Space Invaders or Visicalc?
I realise this may be a massively complex thing to answer that can't be done simply...but anyone want to bite?
I'm going to dip my toes in to coding. I'm checking out Code Academy as a start, which begins with HTML as a nice simple introduction. I'm hoping I can use these basic coding principles on some of my old machines.
But as more of a curiosity than anything I want to seriously get into, I have to ask, and this may be a real dense question and I apologise for it. I understand that languages like HTML, C and Java and so on are useful as they turn human-intelligible text into binary values that computers can understand and execute.
But what *is* it about all those ones and zeroes that, say, can culminate in something non-numerical like a spaceship on Defender or a drop-down menu on a Mac?
I can picture, for example, those values being applied to things like numerical calculation, as it's numbers. But how does, say, 4K of numbers magically produce Space Invaders or Visicalc?
I realise this may be a massively complex thing to answer that can't be done simply...but anyone want to bite?