7.7 Nature of work

The nature of work is being changed by computers and their associated technology. Computer technology has allowed computers to do some of the boring or dangerous jobs.

True or False? Write out the true sentences and change the false sentences so that they are true.

 

Before the Industrial Revolution most people worked in cities, in services such as banking, shops and transport and travelled to work each day

At the end of the Industrial Revolution most people worked on farms from sun up to sun down, seven days a week

The nature of our work is being changed by computers and their associated technology

Robots are doing manufacturing processes that were previously done by unskilled factory workers

Computer technology has not created any new areas of employment

Computers allow jobs to be done by workers with fewer skills

Computer equipment is not the cause of any health problems

Computer technology has allowed some boring or dangerous jobs to be done by machines

The problem of unemployment would disappear if computers were taken away

People do not have to update their skills throughout their working life

 

Write out the sentence and fill in the missing word

 

An ????? is a series of steps which, when performed correctly, will solve a problem in a finite time

Pseudocode relies on indenting lines and using ????? to highlight the structure of the algorithm

A ????? uses a set of symbols that contain messages and interconnecting lines with arrows

????? programming is a method of breaking a program into logical sections, using universal programming standards

Selection is a control structure used to make logical ?????

In a ????? repetition the condition is checked at the end of the loop after the steps to be repeated are executed

The first stage in developing a computer solution is called ????? the problem

All documentation should include a problem statement, method of solution. ????? and user manuals

A ????? is a set of instructions written in a programming language to tell the computer how to perform a specific task

An error in a program is called a ?????

    

 

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