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5 things I wish I knew when I first learned programming

When I was new to programming, I focused way too much on learning the syntax, especially the brackets, the semicolons, and ...
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What is a compiler? How source code becomes machine code

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...