CT 1510 New England College Week 5 Arithmetic and Logic Operations Discussion

Response for discussion board is between 250-300 words.

Responses for assignment 1.3 and 1.4 is 150 words.

Discussion board direction: Explain why you believe the real power of a computer is its ability to do repetitive processing quickly.

Discussion Post from peers:

Damon:

The real power of a computer is indeed, the ability to do repetitive processing quickly. The ability to process information requires a basic binary question of true and false, and literally everything in life can be broken down by that series of questioning. Because the computer can do this in unfathomable speeds in comparison to humans, it gives the understanding that computers can outperform human capabilities to process a single string of data.
In the human speed of making a decision, the computer can not only make 100 of those decisions, but also implement the results of that said decision. Not only the initial decision, but the potential thought chain or decision chain can be nearly immediately decided.

We can compare it to a maze. In a maze, your action is to move forward, and the decisions that come across can normally break down to turn left, or turn right. You walk forward, and you choose. You can make a choice based on prior information but you still have to think about your choice and make that decision. If you hit a dead end, you return to a point and make a change in your decision. This means the human mind can only make choices based on what that person knows, has seen, and errors. Computers can do this too, however, the ability to do so is extremely hasten.

For computers, its like
[start]

((0 = no movement, 1 = movement))

num moveForward
turnLeft
turnright

[travel]

if moveForward = 0 then

turnLeft and moveForward until moveForward = 1

OR

turnright and moveForward until moveForward= 1 then
turnLeft

moveForward until [Destination]

This code of course is improper but the basic idea is that, the code would force the program to make all turns that may be necessary until the destination is met. Speed of this would mean the human would have to walk the paths which could take hours, but a program would speed through all the errors and process it in lightning speeds. The program would find the path and wrong turns before a human could ever. That is the superpower of the PC

Elmer:

I believe the real power of a computer and its ability to do repetitive processing quickly comes from a combination of systems and processes. First is the computer itself, it is based on the central processing unit or the CPU, that is based upon how many processes it can handle at processing a request or multiple task. Second is the memory, which it the computer’s ability to store information or data in temporary memory to assist in the processing of the data to make processing request at a rapid rate and perform the task or command per request or in a repetitive loop until the process is complete.

Third it the motherboard, it makes the repetitive processing flow quickly from the CPU to the memory through the channels or various chips on the board. Forth is the hard drive it also provide a way to make the repetitive processing flow, by give the CPU access to the data which loads the program into memory and the motherboard allows the data to flow based on all the other components are responding to the execution of the repetitive processing task that was requested.

The last part of the process is software or the programmer who is creating a program to produce the results of what is being request like payroll, sorting databases, and complex statistical calculations. If you are using programs or creating programs, they are design to run fast efficient, and to have the ability to perform complexed, multiple and repetitive task based upon the requirement of what is supposed to do.

Assignments 1.3 and 1.4 attached are only from damon. have to wait for elmer to post his.