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Computing for England

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Computing for England at Cheshire College South and West

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: computer science
University website: www.ccsw.ac.uk/
Higher National Diploma (HND)

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Computing
Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers. Computing includes designing, developing and building hardware and software systems; designing a mathematical sequence of steps known as an algorithm; processing, structuring, and managing various kinds of information; doing scientific research on and with computers; making computer systems behave intelligently; and creating and using communications and entertainment media. The field of computing includes computer engineering, software engineering, computer science, information systems, and information technology.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
England
To be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
Ogden Nash, England Expects.
England
England is a prison for men, a paradise for women, a purgatory for servants, a hell for horses.
Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Referred to as a proverb.
England
O England! model to thy inward greatness,
Like little body with a mighty heart,
What might'st thou do, that honour would thee do,
Were all thy children kind and natural!
But see thy fault!
William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act II. Chorus, line 16.
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