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Teach Yourself Visually™ MacBook®, 2nd Edition
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Teach Yourself Visually™ MacBook®, 2nd Edition

by Brad Miser
January 2010
Beginner
400 pages
19h 37m
English
Visual
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Chapter 5: Working with Mac Applications

Understand Applications

All applications share fundamental concepts that apply to each of them. Understanding these fundamentals will help you use a wide variety of applications on your MacBook.

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Applications

The reason computers work so well is that they are very good at following repetitive instructions that adhere to very specific syntax and logic rules. An application is a collection of programming statements, more commonly called code, constructed according to a specific programming language. Applications separate you from the detailed code so that you can control what the application does by interacting ...

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