From the course: Computer Science Principles: Digital Information
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Impact of coding and programming
From the course: Computer Science Principles: Digital Information
Impact of coding and programming
- With all the innovation that exists with computers, there is one undisputed fact. Computers are dumb. They are! If it wasn't for programmers that tell computers what to do, they would just sit there. Coding and programming are what allow all the hardware innovations that have been created come alive. The way the programming works with hardware can happen at many levels. So here are some examples. To work with hardware you need to have a system that can communicate directly to the hardware components on your computer. That can be the processors, memory or devices that are attached through ports on your computer. The software that does this is called the operating system. This is the overall system that interfaces the software that we work with every day to the hardware that is in the machine. It used to be that the operating system was very simple. It used to be a simple text terminal that you would enter commands to and execute basic programs. Over the years the operating system has…
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