What is Bootstrapping

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Bootstrapping is an ‘unusual’ sounding term in its own way when you think of its relation to computers, but what is it? Odds are you know it via a shortened variation of the term (Boot), but how does it actually work when you hit the power button? Computerphile explains the deeper level ‘intricacies’ of the process in today’s video.



Published on Mar 19, 2014 

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/sn5QpZornj0
Reverse Polish and Stacks: Coming Soon

This video by Sean Riley and Brady Haran.

Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputer

Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels