Software Life Cycle
The way in which software runs on a computer can be broken down into 3 basic steps (see Figure 2.1).
1. The computer receives a set of instructions.
2. If those instructions are not in a form that the computer can understand (binary), the computer must try to transform them into binary (using other instructions that are already in binary).
3. The computer hardware executes instructions in binary.
Figure 2.1 How software makes the computer do stuff
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