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If you want to go even lower than that, coding is basically just saying yes or no in response to a yes or a no. Sure, that's oversimplifying it, but that's the
by ravenstine 5y ago
If you want to go even lower than that, coding is basically just saying yes or no in response to a yes or a no.
Sure, that's oversimplifying it, but that's the smallest unit of information being changed during computation.
But yes, once you learn the basics that are shared between most programming languages and don't get distracted by the nuances, it doesn't take that long to pick up a different language. Being proficient is of course another question, but achieving a basic understanding shouldn't take all that long when you just focus on how to if-else, how to setup loops, and how to assign variables.
- ojr 5y agoyes, at the lowest level its binary code, 0 and 1
- dane-pgp 5y agoI like to think of myself, actually, as not a code writer, but an author. I just use zeros and ones instead of words 'cause words will let you down.
- bonestamp2 5y agoI like that. Someone on my team referred to us as (data) plumbers and I thought that was a pretty fitting analogy too.
- Lwepz 5y agoFree Guy(2021) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6264654/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6264654/
- koheripbal 5y agoAll chemistry is just sharing electrons.
- carbonguy 5y agoWell, it's more complicated than that - you see, occasionally the electrons are not shared, but given up entirely.
- chii 5y agobut that's one-sided sharing.
- devoutsalsa 5y agoOr positrons.
- ahdh8f4hf4h8 5y agoand electrons are just quarks, and quarks are just a state in a quantum field, and a quantum field is just...
- kaba0 5y agoNot quite. It has to somehow store and later retrieve a few (infinite) “yes-nos” to be general enough.
- phist_mcgee 5y agoAll machines that satisfy a test of whether they can do yes-no, store the result of that yes-no, and then go to another yes-no are verifiably considered yes-no machines, that is, they are yes-no complete.