CIS 1000 Chapter 10: Chapter 10.doc

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1000
• Professor: Jing Yu Zhu

Document Summary

Enable you to customize and automate various features of a software. Can execute a complicated sequence of steps with a single command. A system is a collection of pieces working together to achieve a common goal. An information system includes data, people, procedures, hardware, and software. System development life cycle (sdlc) is a set of steps" or organized process to ensure that development proceeds in an orderly fashion. Need to be available for multiple operating systems. Be free of errors and well supported. Flowcharts are visual diagrams of a process. Programming is the process of translating a task into a series of commands a computer will use to perform that task. Identifying which parts of a tasks a computer can perform. Describing those tasks in a highly specific and complete manner. Translating this description into the language spoken by the computer"s central processing unit (cpu) The problem statement is the starting point of programming work.