A great all around introduction to programming. It poses an interesting question which I think it doesn't really answer well: "What Is the Relationship Between Code and Data?" I can easily understand what a "program" is. It is a set of instructions we give to the computer for it to do something we want it to do. But what is "data"?
What Is Code? (2015)
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#13A great all around introduction to programming. It poses an interesting question which I think it doesn't really answer well: "What Is the Relationship Between Code and Data?" I can easily understand what a "program" is. It is a set of instructions we give to the computer for it to do something we want it to do. But what is "data"?
A set of instruction activators we give the computer
Oh and that easily understood set of instructions are also data
Re: What Is Code? (2015)
#14A great all around introduction to programming. It poses an interesting question which I think it doesn't really answer well: "What Is the Relationship Between Code and Data?" I can easily understand what a "program" is. It is a set of instructions we give to the computer for it to do something we want it to do. But what is "data"?
Re: What Is Code? (2015)
#15A great all around introduction to programming. It poses an interesting question which I think it doesn't really answer well: "What Is the Relationship Between Code and Data?" I can easily understand what a "program" is. It is a set of instructions we give to the computer for it to do something we want it to do. But what is "data"?
That is, data are programs, programs are data. Just need to establish the environment in which to execute/process them.
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#16A great all around introduction to programming. It poses an interesting question which I think it doesn't really answer well: "What Is the Relationship Between Code and Data?" I can easily understand what a "program" is. It is a set of instructions we give to the computer for it to do something we want it to do. But what is "data"?
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#18A great all around introduction to programming. It poses an interesting question which I think it doesn't really answer well: "What Is the Relationship Between Code and Data?" I can easily understand what a "program" is. It is a set of instructions we give to the computer for it to do something we want it to do. But what is "data"?
It's a sequence of bits. You take reality (or whatever you want) and represent it as bits. That sequence of bits is called "data".
Re: What Is Code? (2015)
#19A great all around introduction to programming. It poses an interesting question which I think it doesn't really answer well: "What Is the Relationship Between Code and Data?" I can easily understand what a "program" is. It is a set of instructions we give to the computer for it to do something we want it to do. But what is "data"?
Code is data that can be executed, provided that there is a something that offers an interpretation of it. It think we must claim that this interpretation is meaningful to something.
Executability is a semantic in the context of interpretation, which ties it all back into what data is again. Something something Apply/Eval.
So more open ended terms.