The process to control it is intriguing and interesting but the heart of the computer is simply this notion that we build our descriptions, our recipes, on a sequence of primitive instructions.

这个控制它的过程很耐人寻味，很有意思,但是计算机的核心仅仅只是,我们在初始指令序列上，建造描述、方法的一个概念罢了。

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And when I'm done with the whole thing, before I end the increment of the variable, you know, when I'm done, I'm just not returning anything out.

在循环外面初始化它，然后做一个终结测试，然后在循环内部有一个指令集，在这个例子中，就是对余数做检查，然后显示信息，当我完成了整个循环。

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Different sets of instructions. Anything else strike you as odd when you were reading this story?

这确实是不同的指令，还有其他的吗？,在你们阅读的过程中？

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You saw that in the way he stood bobbing his head, always looking down, nodding like a young boxer to instructions to make you think he was listening to every word, throwing in a thousand "yes"es and "that's right."

你看他站着摇头晃脑的样子，总是朝下看，像年轻的拳击手听指令时一样,那样晃着脑袋，好让你觉得他在听你说的每个字，一边不断附和着“是““对“

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Programming in this context boils down to telling the computer what to do.

在该环境下,编程是给计算机发出指令。

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the answer is, "When they were built, they were built in such a way as to have certain instructions that they begin to follow out."

答案是,在他们被创造出来时,就被构造成一种拥有特定指令,使它们能够依之开始工作的样子

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It's moving through a sequence of instructions, occasionally changing where we are as we move around.

它经过指令序列，在，我们移动的时候随机改变我们原本所处的位置。

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And that does two things: bug one, it helps catch bugs in your code, and secondly it often converts it into a more efficient sequence of instructions before you actually go off and run it. All right?

这有两点好处：,第一是可以帮助你发现程序中的，第二是把你的代码,在运行之前,转换为更有效率的指令的集合，对不对？

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We need something to be pulling the strings, to be directing the body.

应该是有什么在发出指令,引导肉体活动

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