Module P-1
How Computers Run Code
What is actually happening underneath a program: how source text becomes instructions a processor runs, what memory really is, why numbers and text go wrong in the particular ways they do, and how to read a failure instead of guessing at it.
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- P-1.1 What the Machine Actually Executes
Foundation · 10 h
- P-1.2 Memory, Addresses and What a Variable Really Is
Foundation · 12 h
- P-1.3 Numbers, Text, and Why They Go Wrong
Foundation · 12 h
- P-1.4 Files, Processes and What the Operating System Does
Foundation · 10 h
- P-1.5 How Programs Fail, and How to Read That
Foundation · 10 h