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Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

I've got something of a handle on four high-level languages, and it still messes with me that when it gets down to it, processors are just massive collections of switches. Just makes me happy that I ...