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    Currently, I am pursuing a career in the software development field of computer science. In this field, I will mostly be creating programs and software to be installed or run on computers or other machines. Of course like any professional career, ethical issues can appear, but the issues found in the tech industry are not always found in the office area. Many of the issues developers face are outside of the office area and out in the field. The type of issues I am addressing is computer crimes, computer

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    Computer Programmer How has communications technology affected this career in the past? Communication technologies has affected computer programmers in the past because the first programmers were trying to create a program for calculations to more easily do math. The first programmer was Ada King, moreover she wrote the first algorithm to be carried out by a computer from 1842-1843. The first computer was not electric, but all mechanical. Since then computer programmers have been creating many

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    long way in its importance in technology. From its beginning, the language of C++ has followed different rules in order for it to be successful. One such philosophy is to allow programmers to pick their style and C++ should support the different styles of different programmers, which made the language popular among programmers. Also, C++ was created with the purpose of solving real world problems, which made the language popular as it served more important purposes. Because C++ allowed flexibility

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    2008 there were 426,000 computer programmers employed. Computer programmers write the program the computer uses to function. The computer programmer follows the specifications given to them by the computer software engineer. Specialized knowledge and experience with a language or operating system could lead to a computer programmer becoming a computer software engineer. Programming skills and programming experience is highly valued in this field. Computer programmers must constantly update their skills

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    Under those circumstances on what really the definition of repository is and what it contains, the report entitled Digital Repositories Review conducted by JISC (2005) emphasizes the definition of repository as follows: • Content is deposited in a repository, whether by the content creator, owner or third party on their behalf. • The repository architecture manages content as well as metadata • The repository offers a minimum set of basic services e.g. put, get, search, access control • The repository

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    In “How to be a ‘Woman Programmer,’” first published in The New York Times, Ellen Ullman argues that there is great prejudice against women in the workplace. Specifically, Ullman thinks that such prejudice exists in the deeper parts of the more technical fields such as computer programming. While encouraging women to avoid confronting men who show their prejudice against them, Ullman nevertheless points out the idea that women should stick to their passion for their work. For Ullman, it is the next

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    Driven Development (TDD). One of biggest and most important part of writing a software in any programming language. It is a way developers work to reduce time on debugging their software. TDD is one of the newest and most efficient methods for programmers and it is having an ongoing popularity growth every year. This assignment will be talking about, what TDD is? How it is implemented in Information Technology (IT) environment, why testing is important and how it can financially effect developers

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    compared to the old language. It wasn 't until 1957 that a big change came. The first major language of computer programming was here, in the form of FORmula TRANslating system, in short FORTRAN. FORTAN was almost its own language itself for computer programmers allowing them to do things they never could have when programming. For Douglas this is an obvious advantage being born in the perfect time era. Then in 1958 John McCarthy invented a LISP processing language. What was special about this was there

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    Events from the 1960s

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    travel directions, entertainment, purchasing products, and social interactions. I became interested in computers during the early 1990s and it happened right in my house. Within my community no one really knew what a "programmer" was or how to become one. At first, programmers were the engineers the circuits and processors. In April 1990, I volunteered to help my brother, a Computer Information Systems major at UTPA, to program the IBM-1401. I was 13-years old, had graduated from high school

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    Test Driven Design: Pros and Cons Software testing involves execution of a software or service to check the quality of software product or service. It evaluates whether software components meet the given requirements or not. It also evaluates functionality of the software and time taken by it to run. [1] Software testing is very important for controlling the cost of the software project. Traditionally, we design and develop the program first. However, Test Driven Design (TDD) involves writing the

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