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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: I’ve always understood that computers work in binary. But programming languages use letters, numbers, symbols, and punctuation. How does the program get translated in binary that the computer understands?
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Most of the answers here are correct, but it's also important to note that all the letters, numbers and symbols you enter with your keyboard are also in binary. Each character is represented by a number, for example the uppercase letters A-Z are represented as the numbers 65-90. These in turn are represented in binary.