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Revision as of 18:58, 17 February 2016
Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating algorithms -- for example, through computers.
Description
Computing includes:
- Designing, developing and building hardware and software systems.
- Processing, structuring, and managing various kinds of information.
- Doing scientific research on and with computers
- Making computer systems behave intelligently
- Creating and using communications and entertainment media.
The field of computing includes:
- Computer engineering
- Software engineering
- Computer science
- Information systems
- Information technology
See also
- Algorithm
- Bandwidth (computing)
- Branching factor
- Calculation
- Code
- Computation
- Computer
- Computer network
- Computer program
- Computer programming
- Computer science
- Concurrent computing
- Data processing
- Emulator
- Fibonacci coding
- Hexadecimal
- Information processing
- Input (computing)
- Legacy system
- Locale
- Logic
- Mathematics
- Object (computer science)
- Output (computing)
- Process (computing)
- Plain text
- Sequence
- Software
- Virtual machine
Exterior links
- Computing @ Wikipedia
