LESSON 1. FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER.pptx_compressed.pdf

COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS & Programming Engr. Maria Mayet D. Rivera Subject Instructor Introduction: Computers have become an indispensable (absolutely necessary) part of our lives. We depend on computers for our day-to-day tasks. Computers are actually a dumb machines because they...

COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS & Programming Engr. Maria Mayet D. Rivera Subject Instructor Introduction: Computers have become an indispensable (absolutely necessary) part of our lives. We depend on computers for our day-to-day tasks. Computers are actually a dumb machines because they cannot function on their own. A bare computer machine, without any software loaded in it, is as good as a piece of wood. However, these bare machines are capable of performing zillions (an extremely large numbers) of calculations in almost no time. To reap the benefits of this enormous capability, we need to program these machines, we need to provide them with instructions to do our desired tasks. To make use of computers, we need programs (or set of instructions) that are written in a computer programming language. A computer programming language is a script language that a computer can understand. To tell the computer to perform a desired task, we need to write our requirements in a computer programming language and feed these instructions in the computer. All this is as simple as it sounds, provided that we have thorough understanding of components of a computer and programming concepts and techniques. Lesson 1: COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS