Information Systems 151 : IPO

• School: UW Oshkosh, UWOSH, UW Osh
• Department: Information Systems
• Course: Information Systems 151

Document Summary

The basic foundation of any program is the ipo structure. Input consists of the data that goes into the program. Most programs need to have data to work with, so as a programmer, you need to decide how the input gets into the program. Processing is what happens to the data inside the program. This is where a lot of your code will be involved, especially in larger programs. Sometimes there are many different kinds of processing tasks going on in the same program. Such tasks include calculating, manipulating text or numeric data, searching, sorting, and comparing. Output is the end result of your program, or the results of the processing. The inputs are transformed into outputs by the processing tasks that have been performed. The programmer also needs to decide what form the outputs will take. A program calculates the area of a room.