Ok...I am a noob working from the ground up. I understand the hardware, how the pooter takes 0's and 1's and turns them into data...That took a while to master (my logic is NOT great)

So, I wanna learn to program (prolly in C or Python) but one part of the programming theory stunts any progress. I am just not getting how a computer takes the instructions in a program--being just arithmetical algorithms, functions, and whatnot--and turns it into say--an antivirus program, or a kickin' video game.

It may not be important to most, but I learn from the ground up, and if I can't understand how a bunch of commands that look nothing like "if he is shot he dies" accomplishes just that....

PLEASE HELP!!

Enigma