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Some pros of digital platforms are creating new products/services, promoting revenue, and enhancing customer experience. The network effect by definition is “a phenomenon whereby a product or service gains additional value as more people use it.” This means the higher the number of people that use a product/service, the higher its value becomes. Digital platforms can reach big audiences and therefore provide the opportunity for the network effect.

Cloud computing is a very useful tool because it allows companies to access and update their data in real time, from any location with an internet connected device. This promotes flexibility, collaboration, availability, and the performance of a company.

API or Application Programming Interface, is a software intermediary that allows two applications to be linked to/work with each other. API’s are useful because it allows programs/servers to utilize the services of another instead of creating the same service from scratch themselves.

Links to images: https://www.credencys.com/blog/what-is-a-digital-platform/

Top 11 Advantages of Cloud Computing in 2023

https://www.cleveroad.com/blog/what-is-an-api/

Which coding language adds structure to a webpage?

The coding language responsible for adding structure to a webpage is Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML. HTML provides the base to a webpage, which makes it the most interesting language to me. As someone who doesn’t have any coding experience, I find HTML the most intriguing to learn about because the other languages stem off from this one in a way.

There are many different ways to distinguish whether something is AI, or if it is a person. 

One way is by using the Turing test. Alan Turing was a computer scientist, credited for the creation of the Turing test. This test was designed to distinguish whether or not Artificial intelligence has the ability to think like a human.

During class we were prompted to ask different questions we felt may allow us to determine if we were talking to a bot or to a person. Here or some questions and techniques that I personally found to be useful: 

-How are you feeling? Why are you feeling this way?

-What are the names of your parents? 

-What’s the meaning of life? 

-Very specific questions that only have specific answers (This makes it easy to tell because a bot would have a very specific answer due to the fact that it could have the ability to look information up quickly) 

-Gibberish (This makes it easy to tell because a bot usually will say something random and unrelated back)

-Repetition of the word “Why”, “What”, “How”, or “When”(A bot will begin to just say random things back)

 

 

Why do we use loops?

We use loops in JavaScript to perform an action multiple times. Loops allow us to do this without having a crazy amount of unnecessary code. We add a condition to the loop so that way it will run as long as the condition is true. As soon as the condition is false, the loop will stop running. This allows for certain tasks like mathematical ones in which we add increments to a total to be relatively easy to code for.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a type of software that organizations use to manage day-to-day business activities, often in real time. Accounting, project management, and supply chain operations are just a few examples of business processes that can be managed by ERP’s. The main purpose of ERP’s is to increase the efficiency of an organization by analyzing and improving how company resources are used.

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a technology for managing a company’s relationships and interactions with customers. CRM’s are similar to ERP’s in the sense that they are used to make a company more efficient, but CRM’s look specifically at customer relations. CRM systems help companies connect to customers, integrate processes, and improve profitability.

Data integrity is important in many aspects. Velocity is a term that describes how fast data can be generated and analyzed, and veracity refers to the accuracy and reliability of a data set. Both of these terms are important because it is crucial that all data is accurate while being collected at a fast pace.

Links to images: https://magenest.com/en/erp-software/

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Customer-Relationship-Management-concept_fig1_286917172

The coding language, HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), adds structure to a web page. HTML adds structure because it is the outermost framework and is used to create the actual content of the page, such as written text. It is essentially the outer layer of a web page. The coding language, JavaScript, adds functionality to a web page because it is an imperative language. You can use it to create dynamic content based on user input (for example), whereas HTML and CSS are static. It allows the web page to have interactive elements and activities. JavaScript adds buttons and prompts that the user responds to. It can have specific responses depending on what the user codes. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) adds design to a web page because it is a style sheet language that controls the presentation of documents written in a mark up language. Its job is to make your web page appealing to you. All in all, JavaScript is “Event Driven”, meaning interactive. It waits for the user to do something and then executes the code. 

 

Loops are here to help us when we need to repeat several lines of code. There are three types of loops. For loops, While loops, and a Do-While loop. We use a for loop when we want to a line of code to run a specific amount of times. For example, if I wanted to alert a line that states “Last Discussion Post” 5 times, I would do the following. 

The for loop above alerts the line “Last Discussion Post” five times. We know this because i=0, which is us declaring what the value of i equals now. As long as i is less than or equal to five, which is what we did by writing “i<=5”, the code will run. Every time the code runs, i increases by one. We know this because we wrote “i++”.  So, because of everything we declared, when this program is run, it will display “Last Discussion Post” five times. 

When we don’t know the specific number of times to run a loop, we use a While loop. This loop will run a line of code until the statement within the loop is false.