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>>qqqqqu+(OP)
the fundamentals of computer science. Unlike many who comment here regularly, I am not a programmer or developer and though it might seem silly, the way in which a bunch of code written in a programming language of any sort translates to a computer physically or electrically causing things to "happen" because of it has always been a bit fuzzy. I know that electronic systems and machines translate all instructions to binary code but still, from there how does the rest happen? such as an OS on my laptops working the way it does, or more specialized: an unmanned spacecraft autonomously navigating its way through the solar system and doing complex physical tasks. Anyone have a suggestion for a good starting point on learning through these fundamentals and on upwards?

>>shadow+Mb1
It's a long road to the top (i.e. something like a python program), but you can start at the bottom and try to understand how basic hardware gates (and/or/xor/register) work and can perform extremely elementary yet useful tasks.

Then it's just a "simple" matter of stacking up a billion of the things to get them to do complex programs.