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.
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Before the Industrial Revolution most people worked in cities, in services such as banking, shops and transport and travelled to work each day |
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At the end of the Industrial Revolution most people worked on farms from sun up to sun down, seven days a week |
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The nature of our work is being changed by computers and their associated technology |
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Robots are doing manufacturing processes that were previously done by unskilled factory workers |
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Computer technology has not created any new areas of employment |
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Computers allow jobs to be done by workers with fewer skills |
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Computer equipment is not the cause of any health problems |
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Computer technology has allowed some boring or dangerous jobs to be done by machines |
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The problem of unemployment would disappear if computers were taken away |
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People do not have to update their skills throughout their working life |
Write out
the sentence and fill in the missing word
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An ????? is a series of steps which, when performed correctly, will solve a problem in a finite time |
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Pseudocode relies on indenting lines and using ????? to highlight the structure of the algorithm |
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A ????? uses a set of symbols that contain messages and interconnecting lines with arrows |
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????? programming is a method of breaking a program into logical sections, using universal programming standards |
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Selection is a control structure used to make logical ????? |
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In a ????? repetition the condition is checked at the end of the loop after the steps to be repeated are executed |
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The first stage in developing a computer solution is called ????? the problem |
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All documentation should include a problem statement, method of solution. ????? and user manuals |
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A ????? is a set of instructions written in a programming language to tell the computer how to perform a specific task |
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An error in a program is called a ????? |