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Computers are electronic machines that process information as input and output results. They accept data and instructions, and use arithmetic and decision-making operations to process the information. While computers can perform complex calculations quickly and accurately, they are not capable of thinking. A computer has four basic components: input, processor, memory, and output. The processor controls operations and contains a control unit and arithmetic/logical unit, while memory stores both internal and external data and instructions.

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Computer Application

Computers are electronic machines that process information as input and output results. They accept data and instructions, and use arithmetic and decision-making operations to process the information. While computers can perform complex calculations quickly and accurately, they are not capable of thinking. A computer has four basic components: input, processor, memory, and output. The processor controls operations and contains a control unit and arithmetic/logical unit, while memory stores both internal and external data and instructions.

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COMPUTER APPLICATION

Computer are electronic machines that process information. They are


capable of communicating with the user, of doing kinds of arithmetic
operation, and making three kinds of decision. However, they are incapable
of thinking. They accept data and instruction as input, and after processing
the information, they output the results.
When talking about computer, both hardware and software need to be
considered. The former refers to the actual machinery, whereas the latter
refers to the programs that control and coordinate the activities of the
hardware. The first computer was build in 1930 but since then computer
technology has evolved a great deal.
There are three different kind of computers in use today: the mainframe, the
minicomputer and the microcomputer. All three have one thing in common
– they operate quickly and accurately in solving problem.
COMPUTER COMPONENT
A computer has four basic component : input, processor, memory, output. The
processer has two parts the control unit which directs and controls the signals and
commands inside the processor, and the arithmetic- logical unit which does the five
arithmetic operations and the three decisions making operations. In a computer,
internal memory or primary memory refers to the storage location inside the
computer whereas secondary memory refers to the storage embodied in the
peripheral.
There are three types of internal memory: core as in the mainframe;
semiconductor or chip as in microcomputer; and bubble memory. Secondary
memory; on the other hand, may be classified as either sequential or direct acess.
The input devices, whether they are card readers, tape drive, disk drive or
terminal enter the information into the computer. After the processor has
operated on it, the output devices display the results of the computations on a
printer or a terminal, or store them on tape or disk.
DATA PROCESSING
Data processing refers to the operations which are performed on the data either
to derive information from them or to order them in files. There operations
include functions performed both by programmers and by automatic
equipment.
The function of programmers are to prepare, test, and document computer
programs. This step encompasses analysing a problem, formulating an algorithm
to solve it, translating the algorithm into high-level language, test the program,
and running it with the data. The functions of the computer, on the other hand,
are to perform arithmetic and logical operations on the program and data after
they have been translated to machine code, and to make the result of these
operations accessable to human.

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