CSC190H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: User Friendly, Space Race, Operand
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The workbook will have page numbers, and page numbers can be given non-numerical user-friendly names. Some of these pages store numbers that represent actions the human would take: in this case, the human would decode the number (to extract the action, operand information, location for the result, etc. ), and perform the action in a manner consistent with the encoding. Other pages store numbers that represent data: information with some real-world use. These page numbers would be named, with some user-friendly name, so that the human could refer to the page either by number or by the name and obtain the value associated with that page number. So a computer is any machine that operates in a matter consistent with the above. Throughout history, humans have developed a variety of techniques to achieve the above with a varying delity. The modern digital electronic computer, with high delity, operates in a manner consistent with the above model.
