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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: high-school presentation, suggestions? Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:00:18 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: <utvk21$2d7ru$1@dont-email.me> References: <87il1f8o3u.fsf@tudado.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:00:18 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3760dab8c91422f6ac736552b8ce71ae"; logging-data="2531198"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ikiBHEv1qO/i+tszoj8AR" User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Nx983LH9TfiP7ViozmWv0x8luns= Bytes: 1799 On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:57:09 -0300, Johanne Fairchild wrote: > What is the computer about? The computer is the “universal machine”. On its own, it doesn’t do very much: you have to write programs to tell it what to do. Those programs can make it solve any problem for which you can write down the rules of the solution--particularly if the rules are so long and complex that no human being would have a hope of being able to carry them out manually. So the computer is about automation of tasks. Nowadays, most people do things on computers through point-and-click (or point-and-tap) GUIs. Those are great for performing canned tasks, that have already been preprogrammed into the app. They are not so good for automating more complex sequences built out of those canned tasks. That’s where concepts like “scripting” and the “command line” come in.