...“Unit 1 Assignment 1” ITT Technical Institute Intro to Programming – PT1420 Unit 1 Assignment 1 Short Answer Questions 1. Why is the CPU the most important component in a computer? The reason the CPU is the most important component in a computer is because without the CPU you can’t run any software. 2. What number does a bit that is turned on represent? What number does a bit that is turned off represent? The number in a bit that represents a turned on position is 1. The number in a bit that represents a turned off position is 0. 3. What would call a device that works with binary data? A digital device is a device that works with binary data. 4. What are the words that make up a high-level programming language called? Keywords or Reserved Words are words that make up a high-level programming language. 5. What are short words that are used in assembly language called? Mnemonics are short words that are used in assembly language. 6. What is the difference between a compiler and an interpreter? The difference between a compiler and an interpreter is that a compiler translates high-level language into separate machine language program while an interpreter translates AND executes the instructions in a high-level language program. 7. What type of software controls the internal operations of the computer’s hardware? An operating system controls the internal operations of the computer’s hardware. Unit 1 Research Assignment 1 * What were...
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...| Exploring Programming Language | Unit 1 Research Assignment 1 | | | 5/3/2014 | PT1420 | The five most popular programming languages in the 1970’s were: 1970: Pascal 1972: C 1972: Smalltalk 1972: Prolog 1973: SQL Pascal The Pascal programming language was developed by Niklaus Wirth. It was created in 1968 but it wasn’t published until 1970. It was developed to provide the features other programming languages didn’t offer at that time. His main reason for developing Pascal was efficiently implement and run, to allow for the development of structured and well organized programs, and to serve as a tool to teach the important concepts of computer programming. The program was named after a mathematician named Blaise Pascal. It was used as the primary language in the Apple Lisa and for the Mac in the early years of the computer. SQL SQL, which is short for, Structured Query Language, was designed by an IBM research center in 1974-1975. The Oracle Corporation introduced it as a commercial database system in 1979, the first time it was introduced. It has been a favorite query language for the use of database management systems for the microcomputer and mainframes, but is being supported by the PC database. C C was created at the Bell Laboratory in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie. It was created for the purpose in designing UNIX. Prolog Was created from 1971-1973 and was distributed in 1974-1975. It was created not as a programming language on purpose but...
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...Michael Campbell PT1420 Unit 1 Re Ass 1 10/10/2014 1. 1970s – The programming language was C, which was created by Dennis M. Richie. Before he created the C language there was the B language, which was created by Ken Thompson in 1969-70. The computers in that time wrote in assembly code and the user had to write many pages of code to do a task. When the B language was created, it made it possible to do a task in a few lines. Although the B language improved the systems it lacked use of structure and didn’t know data types. So in 1971-73 Dennis Richie wrote the C language in which he kept the B syntax but added data types and other changes that needed to be made. It was built for power and speed and developed for UNIX systems. Its also used for Windows, the MacOS and Linux. 2. 1980s – The programming language was Python, which was created by Guido van Rossum. It’s more of a scripting language and allows users to produce large quantities readable and functional code in a quick amount of time. Python teaches the user how to work with other languages, indentation, and modularity. It supports object – oriented, procedural, and functional program styles. C++ was also created and used many different types of computers. Program A was created by Arthur Whitney in 1988, and it focused on graphics, systems interfaces, utility support, and user community. 3. 1990s – The programming language was Ruby, which was created by computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto. It was created...
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...From above questions for both data including 1) sequencing reads in the FASTQ format. And 2) positions of SNP on hg19 of Exome sequences of 2000 Thai individuals. Before I use those data, for the first part I got to processing and quality control of FASTQ format, and second part I will create newly assembly by joining of many short reads. After that, I got to annotate and map for detected variants using characteristics such as allele frequency, location in the genome, and then classifying and prioritizing the detected variants based on those annotations. After I finish analyzing FASTQ data, I have data from FASTQ format and positions of SNP on a hg19, and then I systematize both data together in my database such as relationship between genes on a chromosome or SNP variant on gene. For the next part, I will create web page...
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...Research problem and research questions Research papers assist in uncovering and explaining complex issues. The problem statement and research questions identified by the researcher requires in depth research and analysis before one can arrive at any logical conclusions. The research problem relates to the challenges experienced by Mobile Cloud Computing service providers and users. The challenges include data security, capability of Cloud Computing technology to store and process large amounts of structured and unstructured data, resource optimization, availability and scalability of both mobile device technology and Mobile Cloud Technology and bandwidth usage and availability. Some of the objectives that will direct the research include: 1. Identifying how Cloud Computing and Mobile Cloud Computing Service providers are addressing the security weaknesses to ensure that stored data is safe and secure 2. Identify what technological advancements are being introduced by mobile device manufacturers to extend the employment of Mobile Device Resources 3. Determine what mobile communication service providers in South Africa are doing to address the bandwidth limitations and high data cost in order to improve users overall experience when utilizing Mobile Cloud Services 4. Review new technological and architectural developments made by Mobile Cloud service providers which is set to improve the storage space and computational power of Mobile Cloud Services 5. Establish the expectations...
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...In the beginning of my research, I started off by going to the UCSB library homepage and clicked on the advanced search catalog. After selecting the advanced search button, I brainstormed key words for my topic. I selected the words combat* or counter and effect* or result* or consequence* or outcome* and “global warming*” or “climate change*”. The first time I put this information into the search engine I got zero results because I carelessly left out the end quote in the word global warming. After I fixed my mistake, I got a total of 37 results. I then proceeded to briefly look over book titles that seemed relevant to my topic to deduce which books to select for my assignment. Subsequently, I researched for the scholarly journal articles by going to the Academic Search Complete database. I used the advanced search engine and selected only peer reviewed journal articles, in English. When inserting the same keywords I used in my previous search, I attained 914 results. To narrow down my search, I deleted “global warming*” and counter* from my keywords and limited the years of publication from 2000 to 2014. This narrowed down my results to 52. I later scanned the results list to find titles that seemed relevant to my topic and choose articles that best fit my subject question When looking for my popular magazine article I refined my search by using the same keywords, but limited it to magazines rather than scholarly or peer reviewed journals. I retrieved a total of 53 results...
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...products, a sale happens in a shop. The cardinality shows how much of one side of the relationship belongs to how much of the other side of the relationship. First, you need to state for each relationship, how much of one side belongs to exactly 1 of the other side. For example: How many customers belong to 1 sale?; How many sales belong to 1 customer?; How many sales take place in 1 shop? You'll get a list like this: (please note that 'product' represents a type of product, not an occurrence of a product) • Customers --> Sales; 1 customer can buy something several times • Sales --> Customers; 1 sale is always made by 1 customer at the time • Customers --> Products; 1 customer can buy multiple products • Products --> Customers; 1 product can be purchased by multiple customers • Customers --> Shops; 1 customer can purchase in multiple shops • Shops --> Customers, 1 shop can receive multiple customers • Shops --> Products; in 1 shop there are multiple products • Products --> Shops; 1 product (type) can be sold in multiple shops • Shops --> Sales; in 1 shop multiple sales can me made • Sales --> Shops; 1 sale can only be made in 1 shop at the time • Products --> Sales; 1 product (type) can be purchased in multiple sales • Sales --> Products; 1 sale can exist out of multiple products Did we mention all relationships? There are four entities and each entity has a relationship with every other entity, so each entity must have three relationships, and also appear on the left end of the...
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...Task 1 explores a little bit into confidence interval and how the width can be affected by the sample size. Students are expected to acquire the mean (average) of a normal population with a population variance of 1 and a confidence interval of 95%. In this task, we will see the relationship between sample size and width in detail by plotting graphs. We will also explore on the accuracy of an interval and how it can be increased or decreased by varying the value of the width. Variance, σ^2 = 1 Standard deviation, σ = 1 Confidence Interval: 95% From the formula to obtain width, The sample sizes of n = 25, 49, 64, 100 and 400 are substituted into the formula above to obtain the other values of width. The values are tabulated in a table below. hence the graph does not pass through the origin. It can be stated that as the sample size increases, the width will decrease. The higher the sample size,...
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...AUGUST 2014 TITLE 1: MAPS TITLE 2: CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE TITLE 1: 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 What is a map? 2 SCALE 2.1 Types of scale 3 COORDINATE SYSTEMS 3.1 Types of location 4 PROJECTIONS...
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...In the beginning of the semester I had many questions that I wanted to answer to my inquiry question, now I have all the answers. I learned so much about bilingual students that I would have nerve thought I would have learned. I learned that the teachers often are supporting students as young writers with read aloud in classrooms, side by side work with doing written activity and share time. In my inquiry project I did a lot of reading aloud and activities that included writing. I notice that I help support the student as a young writer with all my activities and read aloud. Also the read aloud was the best way to support my student because there’s listening, thinking and conversation as I read. Author Judith and Collins emphasize that book reading and conversation support the development of oral language and content knowledge. I learned that the students were able to use literacy to express their emotions. My student was able to express her emotions verbally and through drawing. Schickedanz and Collins (2013) ,”Children typically set out to draw with intention, and they use details that help convey their meaning. I learned that through literacy, children able to learn about how to express their emotions and regulate their behaviors. Schickedanz and Collins(2013),”A broad vocabulary learned from stories includes words, such as sad, astonished, distraught, knowing, remembering, forgetting, wondering, thinking, and wishing, all of which help children understand a story’s characters...
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...The task was simple: write an essay based on this prompt, “A Biola University education is designed to equip students for a life of following Jesus. The Bible plays a significant role in the life of a Christian. Using meaningful verses from the Bible, in 1-2 pages please respond to both of the following prompts: 1. Describe how and when you made a decision to follow Christ 2. Using personal examples, share about your growth as a Christian over the past 3 years.” Yet, the the essay was much more difficult to write than expected. Not only did I have to meet the essay requirements, I was also attempting to win over the admissions board to be accepted into Biola University. I remember as I wrote this essay, I was terrified. Seeing as my father is a Language Arts teacher, I always felt pressured to have “perfect” writing. Always keep your formal writing in the third person. Do not use contractions. Make your essay fight for your topic, not against it. All the added...
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...The rhetoric refers to techniques to persuade the audience. When considering the rhetorical situation the first thing I consider is who is my audience? What does the audience already know? What does my audience care about? You have to find how I am going to communicate my message to the audience. Making sure that I convey a proper way to persuade the reader. After selecting a topic I need to think about specific questions I want to address in my research questions. I ask myself do I want my question to be clear, focused, or complex. The research questions are going to help focus on a broad topic and specific issue to help develop search terms for my research. Identifying research questions by selecting nouns important to the meaning of your questions and leaving out ones that don’t help. Concept mapping helps refine your questions as you focus on your topic. Using strategic searching to find answers to my topic, I need to find appropriate research questions. Why does this topic matter to me? Why should it matter to others? My research question should not have a simple yes or no answer but require research and analysis. Also I can use synonyms to help expand my search. That will give me a wide range or define my search to just the words I want to search within the database. I will use the Herzing online library to do my research. When evaluating sources for research its several different things you need to look for. First you want to find out who the author is and their credentials...
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...1. If on the subject of climate change with another person and that person mentions that climate change is a natural cycle and not caused by humans, I would somewhat have to agree with them. I would agree with them that climate change is a natural cycle, but humans are very much so influencing it. In fact, I would point them to Katherine Hayhoe’s YouTube series where she talks all about it. She mentions in the videos that the climate does go through cycles of colder and warmer temperatures, but because of humans, the cycle has changed. Physicists have concluded that out climate should be close to 60 degrees cooler than what it is now, and in fact we should be heading toward our next ice age. What is even more bizarre, is that the process of...
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...the following equation. This equation shows that the rate of change of the human population can be expressed by minus the population of zombies. Consequently, this new model predicts that the zombie population will grow exponentially. It is possible to use this equation to find out how quickly the human population is changing for any number of zombies. For example, if there are 50 zombies, the rate of change of the human population can be expressed by the following. This shows that the rate of change of the human population when there are 50 zombies is -50. This means at this time, the human population will be shrinking at a rate of 50 humans per day. Assuming the population of zombies can be expressed by the equation in kill rate 1, the following substitution can be made. Therefore, it is possible to integrate the equation to find the population of humans over time. It is possible to calculate the value of A by finding the initial conditions. When time is 0, it has already been stated that there are 9999 humans. Therefore, these values can be substituted into the equation and it rearranged for A. Therefore, the population of humans can be modelled by the following equation. Thus, the population of zombies is modelled by, . Both of these can be graphed as follows. Figure 2. Populations of both zombies and humans over time. Using figure 2, it can be seen that the time that it takes the zombies to overtake the human population has drastically decreased...
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...In this assignment, we will be analysing the system of Figueroa’s Framework and how it is incorporated within Lifesaving. Lifesaving is massive in Australia because of the vast number of beaches in this country. Lifesavers greatly contributes to the Australian culture by keeping people safe in the surf. There are three main levels of Figueroa’s Framework which are the Cultural, Interpersonal and Individual levels. These all have great effects on different people throughout the sport of Lifesaving. We will also be assessing a personal analysis with my experience of the Interpersonal level within Lifesaving. Personal Reflection Lifesaving has been a completely new experience for me. I’d never tried it before and non-casual swimming is not really my forte so I did struggle a little bit through it all. One massive thing that helped me get through it, it particular the 300m swim, was the mutual motivation between Blake and me; and this is where the interpersonal level of Figueroa’s Framework affects this activity. This extra level of motivation and encouragement from a friend really helps to finish, no matter how your body feels. I was having struggles with the 300m swim because I’m not a great swimmer. I am capable of swimming but have never done it at a level where I had to do it in a set time or in a race against other people. I’m a casual swimmer, so I did have a few issues completing the 300m swim. This is why the motivation from peers really helped me through it. Conclusion...
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