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Sep 29, 2026 12 min

What is Bootstrapping? - Computerphile

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A little bit of magic - bootstrapping, allows the separation of code and machine, allowing one single piece of code to run on many different machines. Professor Tom Rodden introduces the idea.EXTRA BITS - Complexity: http://youtu.be/sn5QpZornj0Reverse Polish and Stacks: Coming Soonhttp://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileThis video by Sean Riley and Brady Haran.Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputerComputerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

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