How do computers read code?

When you first learned to write code, you probably realized that computers don't really have any common sense. You need to tell a computer exactly what you want. But do you know about all the work the computer does to understand what you mean? 0:00 Intro - Where You've Seen Compilers 1:25 Source Code vs. Machine Code 3:38 Translating Source Code to Machine Code 9:05 How Compilers Make Things Easier 10:39 Outro - The Story of Automation Twitter: https://twitter.com/frameofessence Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frameofessence YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/frameofessence Video links: Crash Course Computer Science: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNlUrzyH5r6jN9ulIgZBpdo Building the Bits and Qubits https://youtu.be/F8U1d2Hqark Tools used: gdb gcc Monospaced font: Menlo-Regular Images and other visuals: The IDE in the intro: Eclipse Python scripting: IDLE Source code distribution example: Apache httpd on GitHub Executable distribution examples: Audacity VLC media player Blender Punch cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FortranCardPROJ039.agr.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punched_card_program_deck.agr.jpg Early computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BRL61-IBM_702.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_701console.jpg Complex history of computer languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generational_list_of_programming_languages Montage: Sublime Text IntelliJ IDEA https://www.haskell.org/ IntelliJ IDEA again... Print "Hello, world!" command: Python shell Music: YouTube audio library: Sunflower Incompetech: Call to Adventure If I Had a Chicken Premium Beat: Cutting Edge Technology Second Time Around Swoosh 1 sound effect came from here: http://soundbible.com/682-Swoosh-1.html ...and is under this license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/