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    A computer program is a set of instructions that tells a computer how to perform tasks. A program allows a computer to work automatically by manipulating numbers through calculations. Common examples of programs include word processors, photo editors, and apps. While early computers required users to write their own programs, now most people rely on prewritten programs and do not need to learn programming. However, computer programming skills are still important as someone needs to create the programs and applications that people use. Interest in learning computer programming is growing again through initiatives that make it easier to learn, such as coding clubs and programming languages like Scratch.

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    A computer program is a set of instructions that tells a computer how to perform tasks. A program allows a computer to work automatically by manipulating numbers through calculations. Common examples of programs include word processors, photo editors, and apps. While early computers required users to write their own programs, now most people rely on prewritten programs and do not need to learn programming. However, computer programming skills are still important as someone needs to create the programs and applications that people use. Interest in learning computer programming is growing again through initiatives that make it easier to learn, such as coding clubs and programming languages like Scratch.

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    A computer program is a set of instructions that tells a computer how to perform tasks. A program allows a computer to work automatically by manipulating numbers through calculations. Common examples of programs include word processors, photo editors, and apps. While early computers required users to write their own programs, now most people rely on prewritten programs and do not need to learn programming. However, computer programming skills are still important as someone needs to create the programs and applications that people use. Interest in learning computer programming is growing again through initiatives that make it easier to learn, such as coding clubs and programming languages like Scratch.

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    Ministerul Educaţiei, Culturii și Cercetării

    al Republicii Moldova

    Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei

    RAPORT
    Tema: What is a computer program?

    A efectuat: Onisim Ariadna

    GR. TI-191 f/r

    A verificat: Dutova Laurenția

    Chişinău – 2020
    As you can read in our long article on computer history, the first computers were
    gigantic calculating machines and all they ever really did was "crunch numbers": solve lengthy,
    difficult, or tedious mathematical problems. Today, computers work on a much wider variety of
    problems—but they are all still, essentially, calculations. Everything a computer does, from
    helping you to edit a photograph you've taken with a digital camera to displaying a web page,
    involves manipulating numbers in one way or another.
    Suppose you're looking at a digital photo you just taken in a paint or photo-editing
    program and you decide you want a mirror image of it (in other words, flip it from left to right).
    You probably know that the photo is made up of millions of individual pixels (colored squares)
    arranged in a grid pattern. The computer stores each pixel as a number, so taking a digital photo
    is really like an instant, orderly exercise in painting by numbers! To flip a digital photo, the
    computer simply reverses the sequence of numbers so they run from right to left instead of left to
    right. Or suppose you want to make the photograph brighter. All you have to do is slide the little
    "brightness" icon. The computer then works through all the pixels, increasing the brightness
    value for each one by, say, 10 percent to make the entire image brighter. So, once again, the
    problem boils down to numbers and calculations.
    What makes a computer different from a calculator is that it can work all by itself. You just give
    it your instructions (called a program) and off it goes, performing a long and complex series of
    operations all by itself. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, if you wanted a home computer to do
    almost anything at all, you had to write your own little program to do it. For example, before you
    could write a letter on a computer, you had to write a program that would read the letters you
    typed on the keyboard, store them in the memory, and display them on the screen. Writing the
    program usually took more time than doing whatever it was that you had originally wanted to do
    (writing the letter). Pretty soon, people started selling programs like word processors to save you
    the need to write programs yourself.
    Today, most computer users rely on prewritten programs like Microsoft Word and Excel or
    download apps for their tablets and smartphones without caring much how they got there. Hardly
    anyone writes programs any more, which is a shame, because it's great fun and a really useful
    skill. Most people see their computers as tools that help them do jobs, rather than complex
    electronic machines they have to pre-program. Some would say that's just as well, because most
    of us have better things to do than computer programming. Then again, if we all rely on
    computer programs and apps, someone has to write them, and those skills need to survive.
    Thankfully, there's been a recent resurgence of interest in computer programming. "Coding" (an
    informal name for programming, since programs are sometimes referred to as "code") is being
    taught in schools again with the help of easy-to-use programming languages like Scratch. There's
    a growing hobbyist movement, linked to build-it yourself gadgets like the Raspberry Pi and
    Arduino. And Code Clubs, where volunteers teach kids programming, are springing up all over
    the world.

    I. Questions :

    1) What is a computer program and examples?

    2) How do you become a computer programmer?

    3) Can you get a job after a coding bootcamp?

    II. The phrase

    a) The software designer created a computer program for the FBI that was able to create composite
    sketches of suspects to aid in their investigations.

    b) Computer programming is a way of giving computers instructions about what they should do


    next.

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