Fundamentals of Computing for the Business Professional
It is important for any professional engaged in the use of computers to understand their nature and limitations.
All commercial computers, regardless of operating system, architecture, vendor, and programming language, operate in fundamentally the same manner, with the same potentials and limitations. They can store and retrieve binary data (ones and zeros), and make decisions to manipulate data based on simple logical tests: this bit is “0,” this bit AND this bit are both “1,” this bit OR this bit are equal to “1,” and so forth. All digital computing has been built on this foundation since the 1930s.
Computers require specified procedural solutions to problems. They follow instructions ...
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