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Mkt/421 Week Assignment

Satisfactory Essays

This week assignment was really fun because it actually addressed some programming. During this week's reading I learned some new programming concepts I did not know and I acquired a better understanding on some others I get used to apply in the practice but I did not known in theory.

I recently discovered that there was a lot of programming concepts that I use on daily basis but I did not fully understand. Now, learning in a structured way I realize some details I missed learning by myself.

The calculator programming assignment is a classic, I did it some years ago in other language(basic I think) and honestly Python is by far an easier language to write programs. Python’ syntax is really clear and simple. I’m used to program using PHP and most of the sentences and expressions are shorter to write. I actually did not …show more content…

The reading assignments of this week where very interesting. The story of the personal computer is amazing, basically Apple, Microsoft, IBM and a couple companies more paved the way to new tech entrepreneurs and new markets. As an Apple fan I have to say that despite Bill Gates with Microsoft created a new era with Windows, Apple created the state of art in computing.
Most of the people see Apple computers as “fancy expensive toys” but in fact they are beautiful and powerful tools. I have used both, in fact I started using Windows and of course being basically a monopoly everybody was forced to use windows by those days. The first version of windows I ever use was Windows 3.1 and despite almost every new version (except by ME and Vista) was in some ways improved it never reached the performance and stability of a OSX system. Lot of “ hardware connoisseurs” can say wait a minute! Apple computers have better hardware, but this was true until some years ago. Nowadays, most of PCs have similar or even more powerful hardware.
This is a never ending discussion but in my humble opinion Apple

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