Bitwise Operators and WHY we use them

Bitwise operators are one of the least understood parts of programming when you are first starting out. In this video, I cover what they are and why we use them!

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00:00 Introduction
00:43 Why do we use Bitwise Operators?
01:55 Unix file permissions
02:54 6 Bitwise Operators
03:01 AND Operator
04:08 OR Operator
05:17 XOR Operator
06:01 NOT Operator
06:30 Negative Numbers
07:24 Left Shift and Right Shift

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