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    student a chance to use the school computer. When I first laid eyes on a computer I was amazed at all the things that it could accomplish but I never really delved the aspects of it. This changed when I took my AP Computer Science course during my junior year, taking the class helped develop my passion for the computer. Taking this course helped me to explore other areas of the computer that I didn’t know existed, because I wanted to learn more about the world of computers I decided to join the cyber security

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    There are a vast amount of security threats to a personal computer. These security threats are harmful because if successfully activated an attacker can access personal information and use it for potential harm to you or your computer. These attacks can also potentially slow down your personal computer and may even cause it to crash. When a computer crashes and the information is not backed up somewhere else you won’t be able to retrieve your data. There are techniques that attackers use to access

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    was we walked in the house. “Go to the office area.” There sitting on a glass desk was my first true love, our year 2000 Dell Precision Desktop. From that day on I spent hours upon hours on this computer, teaching myself simple things such as source codes and mastering Microsoft office programs. The computer became my best friend, it provided an escape from reality and the rough times of my childhood. When we received internet my addiction became almost uncontrollable. I spent hours on the internet

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    My love of computer science developed from a desire to understand the digital world around me. It began as a curiosity and eventually became a deep interest. And since it is becoming increasingly central to our lives, computer science contains the largest rooms for opportunity, influence, and improvement. My major preparation stems from core computer science courses I am taking and have excelled in at UC Berkeley. In my second semester of college, I completed my first course (CS61A, the Structure

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    with computers basically all my life for fun. As I begin to take more and more classes I start to see how all of the things that I did just for fun and as exercises actually affected the pc at a core level. Which to me feels as though I’m unlocking a hidden mystery of the universe to finally start to actually grasp and understand a computer from the hardware level up. I also believe it is a good major for me because I love everything I’m doing now, all the learning and working on computers and growing

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    The beauty of computer science and computer engineering lies in the fact that even with the ever-increasing number of notions and innovations in the field, there does exist plenty of room for improvement and development, so the current can’t and won’t stop. This caught my eyes as a teenager and helped me realize the future and career that I would like to seek. A time when I first desired to change for the better and advance towards improving my abilities and expanding my limits, was when I was preparing

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    Tiffany and the Computer Virus I have been raised as an only child by my mom, with no father in the picture. I know nothing about my father except he moved on to bigger and better things when I was born. I do not care I have my own life. I know my mom did not want him to go, I think she still loves him too. I have always been really close to my mom. I was born sixteen years ago and we have moved eleven times, with seven different schools. This never bothers me, because I get to do it with my mom

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    Did you know that your personal computer might be in danger? If you do not have proper protection for your computer it could potentially be attacked or may already have a virus! There are many different types of viruses out there and the amount of damage they do can vary. I’m going to inform you about what they are, what types there are, and how they can be prevented. Computer virus is the term that defines a class of programs that illegally explore a wide variety of systems. It

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    the computer class, when I first laid my hands over the computer and typed something, it was captivating and fun. It is that moment, I got acquainted with the computers and moved on with them. Whenever I got a chance to show my ability in computers, I took the chance and have shown my mettle. Every time I encounter the computer, it increased my creativity and logic. As I have the habit of reading newspaper daily, it gave me a better exposure of latest inventions and discoveries by computer scientists

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    Ed Roberts Henry Edward Roberts was a computer engineer and became widely known as the creator of the first commercially produced personal computer (or microcomputer) in 1975. He was also the first person to create and popularize the term “personal computer”. Not only did Roberts popularize the personal computer, but he also was the founder of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (Vegter, 2012). This was an electronics company that focused on the manufacturing of electronic calculators, and

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