# The Journey of a Source Line: How your Code is Translated into a Controlled Flow of Electrons

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Academic Training Lecture Regular Programme,2017-2018
- Speaker: Andrzej Nowak
- Year: 2018
- Level: Graduate
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3005041)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

In this series we help you understand the bits and pieces that make your code command the underlying hardware. A multitude of layers translate and optimize source code, written in compiled and interpreted programming languages such as C++, Python or Java, to machine language. We explain the role and behavior of the layers in question in a typical usage scenario. While our main focus is on compilers and interpreters, we also talk about other facilities - such as the operating system, instruction sets and instruction decoders.

Biographie: Andrzej Nowak runs TIK Services, a technology and innovation consultancy based in Geneva, Switzerland. In the recent past, he co-founded and sold an award-winning Fintech start-up focused on peer-to-peer lending. Earlier, Andrzej worked at Intel and in the CERN openlab. At openlab, he managed a lab collaborating with Intel and was part of the Chief Technology Office, which set up next-generation technology projects for CERN and the openlab partners. .

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## Lectures

1. [The Journey of a Source Line: How your Code is Translated into a Controlled Flow of Electrons](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3005041/ab46df379dba), 1 h 7 min (CERN's player)