Genealogy of Programming Languages Pre-computer era Analytical engine The analytical engine‚ an important step in the history of computers‚ was the design of a mechanical general- purpose computer by the British mathematician Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837. Because of financial‚ political‚ and legal issues‚ the engine was never built. In its logical design the machine was essentially modern‚ anticipating the first completed general-purpose computers by about 100 years. The input
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Euros. A linear equation of a function‚ E‚ which converts US dollars (D) to Euros (E) would be E = 0.7749D You would just put the number of dollars in for "D" and multiply by 0.7749 and this will give you the number of Euros you would get for your US dollars. This is a "real world application" of a linear function. Cell Phones Just about everyone has a cell phone‚ and most rate plans are a linear function of some kind. Let’s take a look at a basic example that is a real-life application of a linear
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History of Programming Languages To date‚ there have been two conferences focusing on programming languages. The Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) of the Association for Computing Machinery sponsored two "History of Programming Languages (HOPL)" conferences. The first of these took place in Los Angeles in 1978‚ and focused on thirteen early languages: ALGOL‚ APL‚ APT‚ BASIC‚ COBOL‚ FORTRAN‚ GPSS‚ JOSS‚ JOVIAL‚ LISP‚ PL/I‚ SIMULA‚ and SNOBOL. The prospectus for the first
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to the chronology of the plot‚ the point in time at which the black-and-white segments end is the point in time at which the color segments begin. Nolan uses a non-linear structure to tell a story in non-chronological order. The way Memento was edited is what makes this film different from other films. Because the film has a non-linear structure it is told backwards with scenes jumping back in fifteen-minute increments of story time. This happens until the end of the film meets the beginning of the
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Object-Oriented Programming School of Computer Science University of KwaZulu-Natal February 5‚ 2007 Object Oriented Programming using Java Notes for the Computer Science Module Object Oriented Programming COMP200 Adapted from Introduction to Programming Using Java Version 5.0‚ December 2006 by David J. Eck http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/ Adapted by Anban Pillay School of Computer Science University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban February 2007 3 4 Contents 1 Introduction to Objects
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Ch. 2: Short Answer 1-3 1. What does a professional programmer usually do first to gain an understanding of a problem? Work directly with the customer. 2. What is pseudocode? Fake code as known as an informal language that has no syntax rules‚ and is not meant to be compiled or executed. 3. Computer programs typically perform what three steps? Input‚ process‚ and output. Chapter 2: Algorithm Workbench 1-2 1. Design an algorithm that prompts the user to enter his or her height
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• It is easy to use the Excel Solver to solve NLPs. • The process is similar to a linear model. • For NLPs having multiple local optimal solutions‚ the Solver may fail to find the optimal solution because it may pick a local extremum that is not a global extremum. 22 Example 2 • Trucko is trying to determine where they should locate a single warehouse. The positions in the x‐y plane of their four customers and the number of shipments made annually to each customer are given. Trucko
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of linear equations‚ or a set of equations with two or more variables‚ are an essential part of finding solutions with only limited information‚ which happens to be exactly what algebra is. As a required part of any algebra student’s life‚ it is best to understand how they work‚ not only so an acceptable grade is received‚ but also so one day the systems can be used to actually find desired information with ease. There are three main methods of defining a system of linear equations. One way is
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von Goethe once said‚ “No two persons regard the world in exactly the same way...” What Goethe meant was that every human views the world in a unique fashion. The novels The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and The Catcher in The Rye by JD Salinger both prove this quotation to be true. People do not respond to situations in the same exact way. People who grow up in the same circumstances react in different ways. That’s what makes one unique. For example‚ there could be two people who
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Ruby is a dynamic‚ open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write. Ruby is a language of careful balance. Ruby is a pure object-oriented programming language. Ruby is simple in appearance‚ but is very complex inside‚ just like our human body. In Ruby‚ everything is an object. Every bit of information and code can be given their own properties and actions. Ruby has features that are similar to those
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