I-Essay

** COMPUTER CODE **
 * By Emmet B **
 * 99.5 percent of Americans use computers.  1 in 2 people have a smartphone, such as an I-phone or Android. 31 percent of people have transitioned to using a “Nook” or “Kindle” to read. Computer code is what makes these 21st century tools, beyond their glossy touch screens and keypads, fast, efficient and effective. How it works, the platform necessary, and the early stages of learning this computer language is accessible to anyone who has the interest, commitment, and training to learn. **

 All computer code starts out the same way. Surprisingly, if a person never changed the programming of the code of a computer they would start up the program and get a black screen. When a video game or program starts out, in code, says 10101001011010, all those numbers are called “Binary Code,” except not those specific numbers, each 1 and 0 represents a specific thing, for a real example, my name, Emmet, would be: 01000101 01101101 01101101 01100101 01110100. If someone wants to see how other things looks in binary code, go to this website and there will be a translator: [|__http://www.qbit.it/lab/bintext.php__]  or, for an example of how all these 1’s and 0’s are made up, in other words, here is another example, let’s say they are light switches, off and on, it is kind of like the computer is made up of a bunch of light switches, and each light’s switch controls just one light bulb. On or Off. One or Zero. Yet, if a person took all of those light bulbs together, and thought that they could make a sequence, they would get some very big numbers!

Both Off = 0 First Off, Second On = 1 First On, Second Off = 2 Both On = 3

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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Once the person gets everything running, it will have color-code and more numbers like those above. If someone copies code it is kind of like plagiarising, if a coder copied an application code, the application won’t work perfectly right. Sometimes there are things called open source programs, they let other people edit the code and make their own version if they want. For an example of how difficult coding is, to make a character say Hello people! The person would type: **

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> std <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #008080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000dd; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cout <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Hello, people! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">\n <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">" <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #008080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">over all, coding is very hard to learn, and if someone never changed code from 1’s and 0’s your conclusion would be bad, because it couldn’t operate. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Furthermore, one of the things a person would need is something to code with. There are actually programs specifically made for programming. Programs such as C++ or HTML are some of the many programs for coding,yet HTML actually isn’t a program, it is a type of coding. Every program or company, such as C or HTML or PERL, are all very different. C++ is one of the very famous user-friendly coding programs. C++ is one of many versions of the “C” coding program. C++ first came out in 1985, yet it is still running today. C++ focuses on more data than any other coding program. There is also HTML, focusing more on creating websites, not video games or applications or programs. If someone learns the basics of HTML, according to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/whatishtml.html__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> it is relatively easy to learn the rest of the HTML. If someone wants to see an example of HTML, right click a word on a website then hit the “View Page Source” option, they couldn’t do it on a google docs page or a page like that, or you could press Control + Shift + C and it will come up with the html. For an example here is a small part of google’s code: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">content="/images/google_favicon_128.png"> Google window.google={kEI:"d0WDT- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> In 1987 a man named Larry Wall Invented PERL. PERL is another very complex coding language. PERL is not recommended for beginner, yet if a person is a professional coder, they can really have fun with the program. What this acronym means is actually unknown yet some people think it stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language. Also, PERL is more for coding towards “Graphic Coding”, or in other words, it’s pretty much design, except that it is the way someone would put it in. When making PERL Larry Wall actually combined many other programs into one, PERL, yet how does someone get into coding? There are many scholarships for it. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> There are many scholarships a person can receive if they are going for programming/coding major. Not all colleges offer people a programming scholarship, yet that doesn't mean that none of them do. According to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.collegescholarships.org/scholarships/technology/computer-programming.htm__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> the Northeastern University offers people the School of Professional and Continuing Studies Scholarship which say it is open to everyone in a computer programming major.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Another scholarship and school that gives a programming scholarship is the Metropolitan Community College Foundation; it awards people with the Karen Schnepf Memorial Computer Programming Scholarship which someone can get if they are employed in coding already. A favorite scholarship is the Computer Programming Teaching Fellowship award, which is available at the University of Memphis and can give a person up to 30 thousand dollars. This scholarship can be awarded to women and minorities. Some scholarships are more general than others, yet there are more than twenty colleges that give these types of scholarships. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Computer code is what makes technological things work, all of them actually. When someone would like to make a game, they use code. When someone want to make an i-Phone application, they would mostly use code. Or if they wanted to make a computer, the entire operating system would be made out of code. In addition, everything that is involved with electronics is at least outlined with code. Coding can entertain someone, provide them with a job, and it could give them more knowledge of computers.

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