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Program Development Issues,We have, in the first three chapters, taken you through the various stages encountered in translating a real-world problem into a functioning computer program which delivers the solution. In this chapter we shall take a brief look at some issues which were skated over in our original discussion.

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All About Data,A computer is a device for processing data. We have expended many words on the processing, far fewer on the data. This deficiency will be remedied over the next three chapters, which cover the way data is organised and structured for the purposes of processing and storage.

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Systems Software,Computer hardware responds to a repertoire of elementary instructions, its machine code. We have seen the nature of low-level programming in chapter 6—it is cumbersome, highly prone to undetected errors and unfriendly in appearance. High-level programming, on the other hand, provides the user with a somewhat more friendly mode of communication.

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,Information Processing—Why and How?,matical in nature. Indeed, . is a synonym for ‘calculate’, and the initial development of the modern computer in the 1940s and 1950s was as a device for speeding up lengthy and complex calculations. The second definition indicates, however, that nowadays this definition must be considered as out of date.

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Dynamic Data Structures,of data structure. Unlike an array or record, a file does not have a fixed size; it can even be empty. Writing to a file alters its size. A data structure whose size can be altered by inserting and deleting elements is called a ..