An application is a software program that lets users do a task -- like listen to music or find directions.

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So today, I want to be a little bit less abstract, if you like, and I want to look at an application.

今天的课程会不那么抽象,如果你们愿意的话,我想在这里列举一个应用案例

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I had to fill out an application. There's like a Princeton application,

我需要填写申请表。那是普林斯顿的申请表，

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in the context of a web page. And increasingly that is where the human computer interaction is, and so will you be empowered by terms and not to just to make a website per se but to make an application, something that's of interest to you, something that solves problems, something that lets you tell someone through the most electronic means possible that you saw them somewhere on campus.

以网页内容的形式表现出来,人机交互的运用将越来越多，而且你将学会编程,不仅能制作网站，还能做出应用程序，一些你感兴趣的东西，一些解决问题的手段，还有一些可以让你通过使用,现有的电子手段来分辨出,校园里面看到的一个人的东西。

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