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How do computers work?


A Computer is ran by a CPU (Central processing unit), its kind of like the computers brain.

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The CPU has lots of little switches in it that can either be ON (a 1) or OFF (a 0)

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What is Binary Code?


Binary code is the only thing the CPU understands. Everything you put into a computer is converted to Binary code for the CPU to process. Binary code is made up of 1s and 0s. The computer then translates these 1s and 0s into everything else. Even images your see are made up of 1s and 0s

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