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Re: What's computer programming

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Hello...

On 2/22/2015 1:09 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:> No, it's more like 
creating a list of instructions that a computer can
 > use to accomplish a particular task.
 >
 > Trying to define it in terms of robotics is unhelpful, because a robot
 > is basically a computer with peripherals that can move, and you have to
 > program the movements. The definition thus becomes recursive, and not in
 > a helpful way.



I don't agree with you..

Because what's a physical robot ? and what's a computer ?


When you construct a computer program , you also move and mix and
work with bit and bytes and you also do measurements on the bits and 
bytes and on conceptual representations and numerical representations of 
physical objects to construct other objects from bits and bytes and from 
objects and from methods and conceptual representations and numerical 
representations of physical objects and you have to incorporate 
knowledge in it to give it the ability to behave in different ways... so 
a computer program is like a physical microprocessor or a computer or a 
robot, because to construct a them  have to move and mix the matter and 
to work with matter and do measurements on the matter to construct 
physical representations (from a concept also), and you have to 
incorporate in them "knowledge" to give them the ability to behave in 
different ways: so computer programs are like a physical 
microprocessors, or physical computers  or a physical robots...





Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.

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