One of the most fundamental truths about computers, no matter what form they tak
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One of the most fundamental truths about computers, no matter what form they take, is that they are completely literal. Whether you are a programmer, database manager, network engineer, or a software developer computers can only do exactly what they are told to do. They cannot reason unless they are programmed to.
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This week as a critical thinking exercise, you will develop a 15-20 step process for an activity of your choice. Recall our class activity, and consider what we learned about the importance of being thorough, and literal in your description of the process required to complete your activity.
Assignment Requirements
Introduction: 125-150 words describing the activity you chose, and why you chose it.
Steps: 15-20 steps required to perform the activity you chose.
Format: Your steps must be in the form of If, Then, Else. You will see this demonstrated in class.
Submission: A Word document. APA format is not required, but citations are expected if you are referencing an outside source.
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One of the most fundamental truths about computers, no matter what form they take, is that they are completely literal. Whether you are a programmer, database manager, network engineer, or a software developer computers can only do exactly what they are told to do. They cannot reason unless they are programmed to.To support this idea I have given an activity :
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This activitty is about the instruction given to computer in order to get some result.
let say a user U is giving some instruction or symbolls to the computer by input device say keyboard.
and the computer is checking the symboll in its memory .if computer search the same symboll in its memory then only it will make a reply according to the program written.if the input symboll does not match any of the pre stored symboll computer will print INVALID SYMBOLL.
when user will insert a symboll the symboll willl be stored in a memory location of the computer .
computer will check the new incerted symboll with all pre stored symboll by any of the following search
if computer finds the symboll in the collection of pre stored symboll it will check for the instrction which has to be followed accordingly.let say if user input * from key board this symboll will be stored i a momory location say 'input'. computer quickly search for the * symboll in the collection and since the symboll is already in the collection computer has to display multipication on output box.
but if the symboll inserted by the user is not in thr collection say user had inserted 'nnnnnnnnnnnnnn'
which is not a part of collection computer will display INVALID INPUT
we know that computer is just a device or a machine which is oprating accotding to the instruction in which it is programed and it has no idea that * is a symboll used to indicate the multiplication sign.
computer is not litrate it is just following the instruction and we can say 'that they are completely literal.'
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