6. Translate into English:

1. Рахується, що кількість комп’ютерів у суспільстві вказує на рівень його розвитку.

2. Чим більше в нас комп’ютерів, тим більше нам потрібні хороші програмісти.

3. Хоч комп’ютер може відповісти на багато питань, задавати ці питання повинна людина.

Завдання для самостійної роботи (communication with computer)

1. Fill in the blanks with a suitable words:

Processor; interpreter; understand; language; instructions; different; computer

1. Instructing a computer is done with a computer … .

2. A computer language is a set of words, symbols, and commands that a … can “understand”.

3. If you study computer language, you learn words and rules of grammar called syntax rules that a computer can … .

4. The computer translates the computer language typed on the keyboard into electrical impulses that represent 0’s and 1’s – the form in which the computer can understand and carry out your … .

5. To translate your instructions, the computer needs a language … that is either built into the computer itself or loaded into the computer from a disk.

6. The language processor acts somewhat like a human … .

7. There are many computer languages, because … languages work well for different kinds of task.

2. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian:

1. The more we study human brain, the more we realize that no existing computer can approach it.

2. The more information we feed into a computer, the more correct answers we receive.

3. The earlier children begin to play computer games, the quicker they learn to manipulate computers.

4. The more computers there are in everyday use, the less routine mental work people have to do.

3. Put questions to the words in bold type:

1. A computer stores information which it receives.

2. When our professor was speaking on the history of computers he mentioned Charles Babbage and his great inventions.

3. There are many computer languages such as BASIC, PASCAL, ADA, FORTRAN, ALGOL, COBOL, PL/m and others.

4. Computers have already penetrated almost into all spheres of modern economy.

5. Logical operations performed by a computer are comparing, selecting, storing and determining.

6. To add and to subtract means to perform mathematical operations.

The text for Home Reading:

Computers in our life

A computer is a machine that takes in information (problems and data), performs reasonable operations on the information and puts out answers. We may consider as a computer a man, for example, who receives information, writes some of it on paper, operates a slide rule and by means of it solves some problems. There exist various types of mechanical devices which perform computing operations and are in wide use in science and industry, i.e. in laboratories, research institutes, in plants and offices. These are calculating machines, which can add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers accurately and quickly .

Any device which can accept information, record and process it and then come out with definite answers is a computer. Computer Storage system or Memory is the unit which has the ability to store extensive programs and instructions, refer to and modify them for operation. The Arithmetic unit operates on data received i.e. it can perform high-speed calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It can produce results, i.e. provide answers to a large variety of problems by means of the Output unit all under the direction of the Control unit.

Up-to-date computers can solve a complicated problem many millions of times faster than a skilled mathematician. It handles thousands of calculations per second.

There are three main classes of computing equipment: analogue, digital and hybrid. They work on different principles and yield different results. The digital computers can perform a much broader range of functions than the analogue computers. The application includes all forms of automatic control in science and industry and first of all in space exploration in automatic piloting navigation and landing of space vehicles. Computer programming is the progress of the future. Computers will guide the first spaceships to Venus, Mars and other planets.

The state gives energetic support to the development of computer engineering. The Academy of Sciences established a network of computing centers all over the country. These centers work out new numerical methods, develop new ways and means of automated programming work. They solve practical problems of various institutes and develop new types of electronics computers.

Notes:

To operate a slide rule - працювати з логарифмічною лінійкою