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Overflow Intro. ©2002, Jedidiah R. Crandall, Susan L. Gerhart, Jan G.
Hogle.
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The mailroom is a computer.
Computers need programmers to give them orders.
Computers need programmers to give them orders.
Norman,
the mailroom worker, is the computer and the wall of mailboxes is the
memory.
Alice the
programmer starts by filling some mailboxes with instructions. Then she tells Norman which
mailbox to start with and leaves him alone until he comes back to her and
says he’s
finished.