COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN MINING

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN MINING

The Department of Mining Engineering at the University of Witwatersrand has considered the situation described in the introduction previous sections and has come to the conclusion that the future generations of mining engineers must have computer skills in order to perform his expected duties. The type of computer awareness requires falls into three distinct The categories First, mining. the engineer must be able to use packages, and therefore you must be aware of what the market can offer. Second, you must be able to software specification design, what requires a Engineering and datametodology.In third place,a process systematic treatment he must be able to write his own programs This entails familiarity.

With several operating systems and computer languages. Perhaps most importantly, only one truly computer literate person can determine if a product available purchase, a customized third party product or a written auto system It will be the most appropriate and expensive.effective solution for a given problem. Paradoxically, only the person with computer skills can judge when it is advisable not to use a computer, but rather to use some Another problem solving tool. 

Computer literacy is a mentality.The quality is not easy to define. The child who leaves school in 1990 will know computerized while your counterpart of 1970 no doubt was not. The difference is mainly Actitudinal, but it is an attitude. that can, to some extent, be Acquired by exposure to computers. The first conclusion drawn by the Department therefore was that the students must be free Access to both computer hardware. as possible, concomitant with Security Considerations Simply providing free access to Hardware is not, however, a guarantee. which will be used. 

A director problem in this sense is that many people distrust computers; Maybe they fear being tested be inappropriate to the challenge, of not being able to make the machin work correctly, to damage the Machine or wasting time. Without getting answersThe classic solution to this. problem, and adopted by the author,the student the only It is carefully to guide through its first exposition what to the computers, saying do but allowing make mistakes This teaching format shows that the computer will not scold the student

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