Which are actually things that take in a value and ask the computer to do something with it.

这其实也就是让计算机,对某个值进行某种操作。

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And the second thing we're going to need, is we're going to need a way to give instructions to the computer to manipulate that data.

我们需要的第二件事情是，我们需要一种,能给予计算机指令,以操作数据的方式。

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