Computer Software

Unit 1

Text Study: Computer Programming.

Additional Text: Character Data.

Grammar: The Infinitive.

Text Study

I. Pre-reading Exercises

1. Repeat the words in chorus:

The essence, equations, errors, flowcharting, pictorial, representation, predefined, guide, a template, pseudocode, the burden, emphasizes, a sequence, decision.

2. While reading the text you will come across a number of international words. Try to guess what Ukrainian words they remind of you:

Programming, the process, instructions, specific, algorithms, mathematical, terms, formulae, problem, a phase, a document, a plan, symbols, to illustrate, an operation, basic, structures.

3. Pay attention to some grammatical points:

1) Programming is the process of preparing a set of coded instructions which enables the computer to solve specific problems or to perform specific functions. 2) Any problem must be specially processed for the computer to understand it, that is - coded or programmed. 3) The phase in which the system's computer programs are written is called the development phase. 4) The instructions of the program must be complete and in the appropriate sequence. 5) To guard against these errors in logic and to document the program's logical approach, logic plans should be developed. 6) Pseudocode is less time-consuming for the professional programmer than is flowcharting. 7) It also emphasizes a top-down approach to program structure.