Articles in this series
As you progress in the field of software development and take on more projects, you are likely to make more conscious decisions as to which technology...
Interpretation · In part 4, I wrote about the problem of program portability; a program's code needs to be modified and recompiled for it to run on other...
How Computer Programs Run · Read Part 3 As you may imagine, most programs do much more complicated things than simply adding two numbers. So let's say we...
How computer programs run · The OS manufacturers didn't just give out the code (you wish). Instead, the code (or rather bunch of code) is in object form...
How computer programs run · If you have not read PART 1, we are still selling tickets. The programmers had two options: To either come up with yet...
How computer programs run · Historically, people wrote code in machine languages. A piece of code is simply a set of structured strings that tell the...