APCO 1P93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Disk Storage, Eniac, Microsoft Powerpoint
22 Jan 2016
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People use computers: school for writing papers, research, email, online classes, etc, work for analyzing data, make presentations, business transactions, communicating, control machines, etc, home for paying bills, shopping online, communicating, playing computer games, etc. Devices that are computers: smartphones, ipods, tablets, car navigation system (gps) Computers are designed to do any job that their programs tell them to do. A program is a set of instructions that a computer follows to perform a task: ex: microsoft word and powerpoint. Programs are commonly referred to as software. Programmers or software developers are the individuals that create computer software. They have the training and skill to design, create, and test computer programs. Concept: the physical devices that a computer is made of are referred to as the computer"s hardware. The programs that run on a computer are referred to as software.
