Chapter 0.

An overview of
Programming
BMGT 302
Business Application
Programming
Scott Hudson

Software

1.System
Software

2. Application
Software

Used to control and

manage computer
devices and operations

All program that perform

specific tasks for users

Operating
System

Utility
Program

Examples of
application software
Microsoft Word,
Microsoft Excel,
Outlook
Express and Internet
Explorer

What makes a software

program

Consider opening Google Map for Navigation

Computer Programming
Programming
Write computer instructions When you write a computer
instruction you are telling the computer to do something!

Programming language
Use to write computer programs
Examples
Visual Basic, C#, C++, or Java

Language syntax
Rules governing its word usage and punctuation
You have to be perfectly accurate when talking to a computer!!!
How the geet too store do I?

Problem Solving and

Algorithm
It has often been said that a person does
not really understand something until he
teaches it to someone else. Actually a
person does not really understand
something until after teaching it to a
computer, i.e., express it as an algorithm."
-- (Donald Knuth, in "American
Mathematical Monthly," 81)

Algorithm
Algorithm: an ordered sequence of unambiguous
and well-defined instructions that performs some
task and halts in finite time
Example
baking a cake
Get a bowl
Add three cups of flour
Add two eggs
Add a cup of buttermilk
Stir
Bake at 350 degrees for 45
minutes

How to Represent
Algorithms
Pseudocode
An English-like representation of a
numbered list of instructions to perform
some task

Flowchart
A pictorial representation of the logical
steps

Pseudocode

Sequence control

Pseudocode

Conditional /Selection control

Pseudocode

Iterative/ loop control

Flowchart

Flowchart

Flowchart - example

Flowchart - example

Flowchart - example