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Unit 9: Software Development

Notes

Apple Computer

A pple Computer is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing

and manufacturing consumer electronics and even develops software products. It was
con-founded by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Steve Wozniak met Steve Jobs while
he was working at Hewlett-Packard. Steve Jobs worked part time, where he would finish up
games that they designed in Grass Valley.

In 1975, the first personal computer kit, the Alistair 8800 was announced. Since Steve Wozniak
couldn’t afford an Alistair 8800 he decided to build his own personal computer by using cheaper
chips. As circuit board alone, it could do more than Alistair. He and Steve Jobs called it Apple
I, Jobs handled on marketing it while Wozniak continued to improve it. By 1977, Wozniak had
built Apple II, then he and Jobs decided to form Apple Computer Inc. when it went public on
1980, its stock value was $117 million, three years later it was $985 million.

This story of how Apple started is one of my favorite. We watched a film titled “Pirates of
the Silicon Valley” last year that’s why Apple story is a little familiar for me. We can see that
Steve Wozniak is determined that he will develop a computer even if he was still a child. I
can say that if we really put out hard work and commitment to do something then we can
be successful. According to Wozniak, if we try to start our own company, we must have the
highest ethics and be open and truthful about things, not hide. We must not lead people. Know
in your heart that you’re a good person with good goals because it will carry over to our own
self-confidence: make our own product better that the average person would.

Questions:
1. Mention some attributes of Apple computers in software development.

2. What is the vision behind establishing Apple computers?
9.4 Summary

• Debugging is often done with IDE like Eclipse, kdvevelop, net bank and visual studio.
• Implementation techniques include imperative languages (object-oriented or procedural)
functional languages, and logic languages.

• Computer programs can be categorized by the programming language paradigms used to
produce them. Two of the main paradigms are imperative and declarative.

• Compilers are used to translate source code from a programming language into either object
code or machine code.

• Computer programs are stored in non-volatile memory until requested either directly or
indirectly to be executed by the computer user.

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