November 2002
Beginner
432 pages
11h 44m
English
Content preview from Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition
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Accuracy Is Everything
You now are well aware that the computer is a machine that does not deal well with ambiguity. A programmer's plague is the errors that show up in code. Programmers must ensure that they do not write programs that contain errors, and this is not always easy.
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 | The term bug has an interesting origin. The late naval admiral Grace Hopper, one of the early pioneers of computer hardware and software (she helped write the first COBOL compiler), was working on a military computer system in the early 1950s. While printing a report, the printer stopped working. Admiral Hopper and her co-workers set out to find the problem. After spending ... |