Life in the NeighborhoodChapter 5 Expanding Horizons
Cathy came to me as I was working and asked me if I could show her something about what I was doing. I told her that I would be happy to show her. I started explaining about how you program a computer to perform the tasks you wanted. Most of the programming I was doing was in visual basic and C++. Giving her an overview of how it's done meant that I had to show her the main parts that make up a computer system. Using my desktop unit as an example I covered the basics including input, output,...