05x03 - Software

[bunniefuu]

♪ To have some fun or pass a quiz ♪

♪ Just follow this computer whiz ♪

♪ Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips ♪

♪ They've got the answers
At their fingertips ♪

♪ Here I am and there you stand
Such distance in between ♪

♪ Because I am a human
And you are a machine ♪

♪ How can I communicate
Exactly what I mean ♪

♪ When I am a human
And you are a machine ♪

[speaks in French]

[speaks in Spanish]

[in English]
♪ I am a computer with so much in store ♪

♪ If you could learn my language
Or I could speak in yours ♪

♪ Then I'd do more work for you
Than you could ever dream ♪

♪ Though you are a human
And I am a machine ♪

OK, I'll give it a try.

[Mr. Chips]
♪ First I hope you'll clear your mind ♪

♪ And listen closely, Scooter ♪

♪ Forget the words you thought you knew
And start to think computer ♪

♪ Computers change the letters
And the numerals humans type ♪

♪ To a number code made up of things
That we call bits and bytes ♪

♪ Bits?
Bytes? ♪

[Mr. Chips] Think computer, Scooter!

♪ A byte is several digits ♪

♪ All standing in a row ♪

♪ They represent a letter
Or a number that you know ♪

♪ For instance when you write an "A"
This byte is what I see ♪

♪ And 00110011 is my way of saying "3" ♪

This bit is one little bit of a byte.

I get it bits and bytes are sort of
a computer's alphabet.

That's right, but ABCs
and 123s isn't talking.

Hey, let's face it.

That's why one language that we use
is called computer BASIC.

Computer BASIC?

[Mr. Chip reading]

♪ BASIC is a language
That most computers know ♪

♪ And once you start to speak it
Communications flow ♪

♪ You use words and phrases
I use bits and bytes instead ♪

♪ And BASIC lets us understand
What the other one just said ♪

So BASIC is a language
that I can talk in human

and you can talk in machine
and we can understand each other.

Yes, BASIC is the language
you'll be using to feed in my data.

It's also the language all my programs
or software are written in.

Data, programs, software?

♪ Data is information ♪

♪ Data means the facts ♪

♪ It's everything you store in me
For solving problems back ♪

♪ A program means directions
That tell me what to do ♪

♪ How to analyze my data
And find answers just for you ♪

♪ And Software is just another name ♪

♪ For all the instructions of programs
That you feed me ♪

♪ Here I am and there you stand
We're closer than we seem ♪

♪ Though I am a human
And you are a machine ♪

♪ I'll get a book on BASIC
And as quickly as I can ♪

♪ I will talk computer
And you will understand ♪

We didn't do too badly,
did we, Mr. Chips?

It was pretty amazing, Scooter.