A Scenario: Reading Email
You are reading email and your friend living outside the US says the temperature is 38o
That’s Celsius, of course. What is it in Fahrenheit? Is it hot or cold, you wonder. Why doesn’t your computer have a Celsius-to-Fahrenheit converter?
This situation arises all of the time … there are many things a computer could do for you, but the software is not available
- You can step through the process yourself, i.e. convert to C
- But what you’d like is to solve the problem once-and-for-all and have the solution packaged-up to be always available
What you want is a procedure