the source code is the recipe for each software program or operating system. every i.t. specialist can understand the source code but the computers don t understand source code it has to be transformed into binary machine code which only computers can read and understand. this is the source code for the command display hello world one of the first things you might learn in your first programming class. and this is what the command looks like translated into machine code. microsoft only makes the machine code available to its customers but we can t decipher it ourselves microsoft keeps its source code a secret to protect itself from copycats. this is what s called the
a secret. modern software is written in programming languages the source code is the recipe for each software program or operating system. every i.t. specialist can understand this source code but the computers don t understand source code it has to be transformed into binary machine code which only computers can read and understand. this is the source code for the command display hello world one of the first things you might learn in your first programming class. and this is what the command looks like translated into machine code. microsoft only makes the machine code available to its customers but we can t decipher it ourselves microsoft keeps its source code a secret to protect itself from copycats. this is what s called the