What are the basic modules, what information needs to be passed between those modules in order to make the code work.

基本的模块是哪些，为了让整个程序正常运行,这些模块之间需要传递的信息有哪些。

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This is me writing one hour of that episode of Pirandello and telling the other authors, here's what I'm assuming as you use it. So it's up to me to do it right, but if I do it, I'm going to specify, what does this function do?

作为一个程序员,我得为用户提供一些信息,这正是我写写的皮兰德娄戏剧的一小时片段,并且要告诉其它的作家，这是我希望你使用的地方，所以由我决定怎样去做好它？

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And I could take that information, type it up into a program, make some assumptions about speed and direction and what routes they're going to take and actually watch the ambulance go to St. John's Mercy.

我得到这条信息之后，将它输入程序里，假设它们的速度和方向,以及它们应走哪条线路,就能看到救护车进入圣约翰医院。

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We had a lot of submissions from the third-party application.

第三方应用程序,也提供许多信息。

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So if I type "man sleep," this is going to give me the user's manual for a program called sleep, but there's a gotcha and the problem set it makes clear, sleep notice that it says at top left sleep one.

所以如果我键入“man，sleep“，它将,给我一个叫做sleep程序的用户手册，但是这里有个参考信息，它使问题更清晰，请注意它指明在左上角。

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Testing and reasoning. Testing, we run our program on some set of inputs.

测试就是，我们输入一些信息，并且运行我们的程序，然后查看答案。

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But notice what this does. The first thing it does is, it says, let's check and make sure x is greater than or equal to 0. If it isn't, notice what's going to happen. None of that block is going to get executed, and it's going to come down here and print out a useful piece of information, which says, hey, you gave me a negative number. I don't know how to do this.

做的是和以前一样的事情,但是注释它做了什么，第一件做的事情就是,程序说，要去检查并且确信x是大于等于0的，如果不是的话，请注意会发生什么,下面的代码都不会被执行,程序会到这里来然后显示一些有用的信息,信息会说，嘿，你给了我一个负数,我不知道该怎么弄这个了。

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