Computer components talking to each other

[Watashi]

I know that different parts of a computer all "talk" to each other through electricity. Does everything really come down to 0s and 1s? Which I understand means on and off

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Yes. It's all communicated via binary.

[Watashi]

4 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Yes. It's all communicated via binary.

So is the code in programs for things like Windows files and Video games eventually "broken down" into 1s and 0s? 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

32 minutes ago, Doomerson said:

So is the code in programs for things like Windows files and Video games eventually "broken down" into 1s and 0s? 

From my understanding, yes.

[HunterAP]

Being a Computer Science major, I can tell you that in short, yes everything becomes binary. Your motherboard, CPU, GPU, RAM, and all other parts have something called Logic Gates, which do a lot of "if" statements (if X is true, then Y is true) but do things more like "If X and Y are true, then Z is true" or something like "If X is true OR if Y is true, then Z is true", where "true" is determined by whether or not electricity is flowing through the circuit (typically electricity means "true" and no electricity means "false").

 

Since we humans really can't read billions of binary digits just by looking at it (Binary being a Low-Level Language), coders write in High-Level Languages (C, C++, Java, etc.), which is either compiled & assembled into binary (in the case of C & C++) or translated into another language (in the case of Java).

 

Even data is stored as Binary , like a video file that's 1 Gigabyte is 1024^3 Bytes, with 1 Byte being 8 Bits, with each Bit being either 0 or 1.

 

This is a gross oversimplification, but if you really care to look into it, Computer Science is the field you'd learn about it.

[Watashi]

On 3/5/2017 at 9:40 PM, HunterAP said:

Being a Computer Science major, I can tell you that in short, yes everything becomes binary. Your motherboard, CPU, GPU, RAM, and all other parts have something called Logic Gates, which do a lot of "if" statements (if X is true, then Y is true) but do things more like "If X and Y are true, then Z is true" or something like "If X is true OR if Y is true, then Z is true", where "true" is determined by whether or not electricity is flowing through the circuit (typically electricity means "true" and no electricity means "false").

 

Since we humans really can't read billions of binary digits just by looking at it (Binary being a Low-Level Language), coders write in High-Level Languages (C, C++, Java, etc.), which is either compiled & assembled into binary (in the case of C & C++) or translated into another language (in the case of Java).

 

Even data is stored as Binary , like a video file that's 1 Gigabyte is 1024^3 Bytes, with 1 Byte being 8 Bits, with each Bit being either 0 or 1.

 

This is a gross oversimplification, but if you really care to look into it, Computer Science is the field you'd learn about it.

I'm a social work major, but I truly love computer science, and if I had a do over I can say it would be a tough choice between the two.