How a Program Binary Becomes a Running Process
- April 21, 2025
- 12 min read
- Operating systems , Programming concepts
Have you ever stopped to think about what really happens when you run a program?
Not just clicking “Run” or executing a command in the terminal, but what goes on under the hood—from the executable file sitting on your disk to a fully running process in memory?
Elements of Computer Programs and Programming Languages
- May 20, 2024
- 12 min read
- Programming concepts
What can we liken computer programs to? To me, they’re like instruction manuals.
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