Yet, many people are amazed at how useful their computers are such that the invention of computers in the United States has been enormous. ... Computers have changed how students learn, study, and do assignments. ... With word processing programs such as Microsoft Word students can access programs to edit, correct spelling errors, and much more. ... Students and teachers alike can use the Internet for research. ... We need to have a general knowledge of computers just like a mechanic in an auto shop, such as how to boot them up, how to run the installed software, and troubleshooting. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One needs a thirty-page booklet to learn how to use them.  ... Much has been written about how the younger generations who have been been brought up in the computer age know intuitively how to use these machines. ... Lacking computers at home (even if they can access them at school), poorer people do not have the opportunity to gain much experience with them. ... Educated individuals can use computers to expand their knowledge; uneducated or less educated people are stuck where they are. ... We cause sporadic outbreaks of massive "computer errors" because we are stupid and careless; what w...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It proved to be very popular as now people found it easier to calculate. ... These errors sometimes proved fatal as these errors also appeared in navigation tables and caused the loss of ships. ... She was one of the few people at that time understood the Engine's design. ... Which meant, is there one definite method by which the provability of any mathematical assertion can be determined? ... The machine can also write and erase symbols. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

However, it has its advantages and disadvantages: The work would become easier but it will also cause people to lose jobs. ... Second, the technology must be available to all types of people. ... Are computers error free? Are humans error free? ... Manual Labor has a few advantages over computers such as with manual labor you may catch a problem faster than you would if you were using a computer because computers do not pick up all errors as it should. ...

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PREFICS was a two month summer program designed for people who wanted to major in Computer Science to get a jump start on their major. ... He was going over a section and a half a day and everybody can not be focused everyday in a class like that. ... She was pretty hard and we had three lab assignments each day on programming the computer to solve different situation that might cause programs. This was my hardest class because we had to learn a new language on how to tell a computer how to solve a problem. ... Everybody was having a tough time in there because you could not have any errors on...

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• Grade Level: High School

CD-ROM's are popular with software makers because it can hold 650 MB while a floppy can only hold 1.44 MB. ... CD-RW drives can also be used to write CD-R discs, and they can read CD-ROMs. ... Single sided DVD's can hold 3.7 GB. ... The floppy disks can hold 1.44 MB of data. You can read and write to these disks unlike normal CD disks. ...

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• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School