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computer a device that receives, processes, and represents data
the complexity for minimum component cost has
increased at a rate of roughlt a factor of two per
year... Certainly over the short term this rate can be
Moore's Law expected to continue, if not increase. Over the longer
term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain,
although there is no reason to believe it will not
remain nearly constant for atleast 10 years.
study of computatio and computer technology,
computer science hardware, and software. diverse, problem solving
interface
Dining Philosophers dealing with race conditions/deadlock
Problem
adopting from previous models will ease future
software engineering
expansions
Lossy Compression data is thrown away to make image smaller
studies and develops intelligent machines and pieces
artificial intelligence
of software
charles babbage (1847-1849) evaluated a degree 7
Difference Engine
polynomial to 31 digits
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ENIAC (Electronic completed in 1946. has about 17468 vacuum tubes
Numerical Integrator and
Computer)
how efficiently can the problem be solved in terms if
complexity theory
time and memory space
computability theory can the problem be solved with a computer
an educator who studied how people think. people
Benjamin Bloom's has six levels of competence: knowledge,
Taxonomy comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis,
evaluation
start with the entire problem, break into 3-5 smaller
top down design
problems, solve problems
sequence of unambiguous and possible steps that
algorithm solves a problem, expressed in a form that can be
understood by a person
programming translating algorithms into a computer language
programming language allows users to control the behaviour of a computer
human languages > high level programming language
levels of abstraction > low level programming language > machine
language
comments provide information to someone reading the code
syntax error identified as code is loaded, no statement executed
identified as the program runs, program does not
runtime error
complete successfully
program runs to completion but generates incorrect
logic error
results
an unnamed and/or poorly documented numeric
magic numbers
constant without obvious meaning
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